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... that the Imperial Russian Navy operated the Satakundskaya Flotilla (pictured), a gunboat unit on a Finnish lake during World War I, without ever actually firing a gun?
... that the Soviet Union Red Army's T-10 tank was originally named IS-10 for Iosif Stalin (Joseph Stalin), but renamed in the climate of de-Stalinization, after Stalin's death in 1953?
... that klezmer musician Josef Gusikov became world-famous playing his invention — a xylophone made out of wood and straw?

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