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With a starting wage of three rubles a month ($3.33), the recruit usually spends most of it at his unit's bufet on candies and cookies to liven up his nourishing but dull diet. Breakfast usually consists of kasha (cereal porridge), bread and tea. Lunch, the main meal, may include herring, onions, a bowl of potato or vegetable soup with a chunk of meat in it, macaroni or beans, and more bread. Supper may be mashed potatoes and perhaps cabbage or cauliflower-and more bread. A Russian soldier consumes an average 1½ lbs. of bread...
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