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...Sholokhov piece, The Colt, is the simpler, but also the more profoundly motivated, of the two. Its hero is born in the middle of a cavalry campaign during the civil war that followed the 1917 Revolution. The Red Army soldier who owns its mother, Andrei Matreyev, curses and spits and finally decides to keep it. The squadron commander, Dmitri Parkhovomenha, blusters and shouts, and finally decides to let him keep it, too. So the colt tags along through the battle and bivouac, until the soldier is killed during an attack, while trying to save it from drowning...
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