While the Soviet and German forces were busy "fully exchanging views," a piston-engine propeller airliner landed at an air force base on the outskirts of Narodograd, the Soviet capital. (Narod comes from the Russian word for people, and grad means city; Narodograd translates to the City of the People.)
Let us shift our focus to the underground bomb shelter beneath the air force base.
It was a brightly lit, spacious room containing a table in the center and two chairs facing each other.
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