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Also a good shout

Of course you did....

Anyone?

There was even a boardgame built around it.  Apparently, it has run to 3 editions!

Fondly do I remember craving to be the successor to Nestor Apparatchik... 

Quote from: Nick Harbud on May 06, 2024, 12:42:39 PMThere is even mention of one battle being won by the music from a Russian organ.

Vunder Veapons indeed!

The origin of the famous Stalin's Organ, the latter however not so well adapted for use in a church.

Well, you might be in good company regarding the music.  The Russian side tended to bring along musical instruments, bells, etc, to stiffen the troops enough to stand a load of Teutonic Knights charging down upon them.  There is even mention of one battle being won by the music from a Russian organ.

Vunder Veapons indeed!

A shekel for an old ex-leper?

Does anyone else remember how we used to laugh at the gerontocracy of the Soviet Union?

It seems unlikely that it was a retreat in the conventional sense of the word - i.e. somewhere you go for rest and recouperation.  Nobody goes to the North Sinai for that ...

More likely to have been the opposite - somewhere the pharaoh was based when attacking.

Ahar me hearties