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England pay respect to Soviet war dead with Stalingrad memorial wreath
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ENGLAND fans laid a wreath today in memory of Soviet war dead in a moving ceremony in central Volgograd.
Two fans, James Lockett and Billy Grant, were among an official party who paid tribute in the city’s Hall of Military Glory, in the heart of the Mamayev Kurgan memorial park commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad.
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