Word: dalmatoff
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...head of a regular cavalry outfit, nominally of course: you admit that Reds eventually had to send him to the school at the age of 46 years, and we back in Russia knew very well that the real boss in Budenny's outfit was a certain Dalmatoff, formerly an old Russian colonel. As commanding officer, Budenny managed to get badly bruised up by Whites in Northern Kuban as late as early 1920, then repeated the same maneuver in Galicia in summer of 1920, and eventually distinguished himself by losing his transport and sterling silver wind ensemble of his outfit...
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