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Russia lost more than two million soldiers and officers in combat, mainly due to insufficient weapons.
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It was a warlike confrontation centered in Europe that was when Germany accepted the terms of the armistice.
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several earthquakes and erupting volcanoes destroy villages and cause more than 7,000 victims.
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Mickey Mouse makes his comic strip debut.
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The shocking news that seemed to announce the imminent end of World War II, the disappearance of the man who "had become in the eyes of practically the whole world the embodiment of absolute evil" - according to the Times of London - was received with an incredulity that would last decades.