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Hispano-Russian general was an expert in anti-guerrilla warfare who ran the Escambray cleanup. But the real factor in our favor at Girón was the militias: Almejeira’s (Ameijeiras's) column embarked on a suicide mission, they were massacred but they reached the beach."
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