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killed (MichaelBurov); two-hundredths (MichaelBurov); cargoes 200 (Cargo 200 (Russian: Груз 200, Gruz dvésti) is a military code word used in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states referring to the transportation of military fatalities. Officially, the term Cargo 200 is military jargon to refer specifically to the corpses of soldiers contained in zinc-lined coffins for air transportation. Unofficially, Cargo 200 is used to refer to all bodies of the dead being transported away from the battlefield, and has also become a euphemism for irretrievable losses of manpower in a conflict.
 wikipedia.org MichaelBurov); 200s (MichaelBurov); 200ths (MichaelBurov) |
