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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians
Meet the soviet Russians : a study guide to the Soviet Union for
teachers in secondary schools / by Dora A. Ames, Katrina B. Anderson,
Eunice Johns [and others]
Ames, Dora Augusta.
Cambridge, Mass. : The Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, 1944.
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? HARVARD WORKSHOP SERIES: NO. 6
MEET THE
SOVIET RUSSIANS
A STUDY GUIDE TO THE SOVIET UNION
FOR
TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
By
Dora A. Ames, Katrina B. Anderson, Eunice
Johns, and Others
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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1ST REPUBLICS (Soviet
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? HARVARD WORKSHOP SERIES: NO. 6
MEET THE
SOVIET RUSSIANS
A STUDY GUIDE TO THE SOVIET UNION
FOR
TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
By
Dora A. Ames
Dartmouth High School
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Katrina B. Anderson
The Buckingham School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Eunice Johns
Horace Mann School
Gary, Indiana
and Others
Published by the Graduate School of Education
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Price, 75 Cents
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? COPYRIGHT 1944
BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
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PREFACE
A document recently issued by the bilateral Canada-United
States Committee on Education includes paragraphs which
well suggest the background for this Workshop publication. The
Committee says,
"Of the 2,175,000,000 people in the world today, only
about 50,000,000 have remained uninvolved in World Wars
I and II. No modern nation, in defense of sovereignty or
even of existence, can live unto itself alone. Each moves
within a vast network of international relations, and its
welfare is affected by events far removed from its borders. . . .
To act with wisdom in matters of national concern and in
world affairs each nation must be wise in the ways of other
nations. Ignorance and lack of understanding provide no
safe foundation for wise action. In a democratic society
the citizens of each nation must understand other nations
and respect other peoples ever more deeply. The Twentieth
Century demands wide horizons for every citizen in a
democracy. . . . To maintain democracy in the modern
world we must have, as never before, a citizenry widely
informed on world affairs and deeply concerned with the
preservation of human freedom. "
Increasing sensitivity in the United States to the international
setting and influences of our times leads inevitably to readjust-
ments and new emphases in school programs of education for
citizenship. In recent years we have begun to increase and im-
prove our instruction about Latin America and Asia; as the
source of the above quotation indicates, we are awakening to
the need for more study about Canada. Among the most seri-
ously neglected areas in our school programs today is the Soviet
Union. We teach relatively little about the Soviets; an undue
amount of what is presented seems to be inaccurate, incomplete,
and biased; out-of-school influences tend to provide much mis-
information, to be animated by prejudgments. The net result
is that we have more misinformation than information, more
heat than light, in our total educational program about one
of the major powers of the world in which our pupils must live.
One reason why our educational program in this area falls
iii
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short is the scarcity of materials directed toward the use of
teachers and pupils. This bulletin is intended to help pro-
vide some of the material needed; it presents a resume of salient
facts about the Soviet Union, a useful bibliography, and a
reservoir of pupil activities. The bulletin can be used by teach-
ers at all school levels and by pupils in the senior high school.
It embodies a "resource unit"; from it the teacher may build
a teaching unit directly about the Soviets, or may select data
and activities for use in courses in general history or the other
social studies. The bulletin does not presuppose a special
course on the U. S. S. R. ; it is useful and suggestive to teachers of
all the social studies and humanities.
The bulletin is an outgrowth of the 1944 Summer Session of
the Harvard Workshop in the Social Studies. One section of
the Workshop, which was made possible by the aid of the
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, was focused
on the Soviet Union in the network of modern international
relations. Dr. Corliss Lamont and Dr. Dorothy Douglas di-
rected this section of the Workshop, working in full co-
operation with other staff members representing fields of pro-
fessional education. A group of teachers participating in the
program under their leadership prepared the manuscript of
this bulletin; their names appear here as authors; to them the
Harvard Workshop is deeply indebted.
Their manuscript is here made available to teachers in the
firm conviction that the area of study in which they have
pioneered is of marked significance in the adaptation of edu-
cation to the needs of our times. Their document is not a
propaganda plea; it is an effort to place facts before teachers
in an educationally useful format. It is the hope of the Harvard
Workshop that this bulletin will provide both a service and a
stimulus to further work on the part of American teachers.
Howard E. Wilson
Harvard Graduate School of Education
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? MEET THE SOVIET RUSSIANS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 1
I. Geography and Resources 7
II. Peoples and Population 15
III. History 20
IV. Soviet Life Today
A. Government 30
B. Nationality Policies 38
C. Economic Life 42
D. Provision for Social Welfare 50
E. Cultural Life 51
F. The Position of Women 63
G.
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? HARVARD WORKSHOP SERIES: NO. 6
MEET THE
SOVIET RUSSIANS
A STUDY GUIDE TO THE SOVIET UNION
FOR
TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
By
Dora A. Ames, Katrina B. Anderson, Eunice
Johns, and Others
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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THE UNION OF SOVIET SO
1ST REPUBLICS (Soviet
tjOUNBAHV LINti
_. _. . . _. AutuftmoutS. S R<<>>ukl<ct
. . . . . . . . Actual Ccwtriu rf At tL&R
jemi ? >> micu
"7 KABARDINO-
BALKARIAN
t. KALMYK
? KOMI
10 MARIISK
Ih 1) MORDVIArt
.
S REPUBLICS in the UNION REPUBLICS
11. UDMURT
14. YAKUT
15. NAKHICHEVAN
It ABKHAZIAN
17 AJARIAN
1i KARA-KALPAK
National Council of American-Soviet Friendshil
11 NORTH OSSETIAN '>> CRIMEAN
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? HARVARD WORKSHOP SERIES: NO. 6
MEET THE
SOVIET RUSSIANS
A STUDY GUIDE TO THE SOVIET UNION
FOR
TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
By
Dora A. Ames
Dartmouth High School
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Katrina B. Anderson
The Buckingham School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Eunice Johns
Horace Mann School
Gary, Indiana
and Others
Published by the Graduate School of Education
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Price, 75 Cents
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? COPYRIGHT 1944
BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
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PREFACE
A document recently issued by the bilateral Canada-United
States Committee on Education includes paragraphs which
well suggest the background for this Workshop publication. The
Committee says,
"Of the 2,175,000,000 people in the world today, only
about 50,000,000 have remained uninvolved in World Wars
I and II. No modern nation, in defense of sovereignty or
even of existence, can live unto itself alone. Each moves
within a vast network of international relations, and its
welfare is affected by events far removed from its borders. . . .
To act with wisdom in matters of national concern and in
world affairs each nation must be wise in the ways of other
nations. Ignorance and lack of understanding provide no
safe foundation for wise action. In a democratic society
the citizens of each nation must understand other nations
and respect other peoples ever more deeply. The Twentieth
Century demands wide horizons for every citizen in a
democracy. . . . To maintain democracy in the modern
world we must have, as never before, a citizenry widely
informed on world affairs and deeply concerned with the
preservation of human freedom. "
Increasing sensitivity in the United States to the international
setting and influences of our times leads inevitably to readjust-
ments and new emphases in school programs of education for
citizenship. In recent years we have begun to increase and im-
prove our instruction about Latin America and Asia; as the
source of the above quotation indicates, we are awakening to
the need for more study about Canada. Among the most seri-
ously neglected areas in our school programs today is the Soviet
Union. We teach relatively little about the Soviets; an undue
amount of what is presented seems to be inaccurate, incomplete,
and biased; out-of-school influences tend to provide much mis-
information, to be animated by prejudgments. The net result
is that we have more misinformation than information, more
heat than light, in our total educational program about one
of the major powers of the world in which our pupils must live.
One reason why our educational program in this area falls
iii
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? SU\oi
short is the scarcity of materials directed toward the use of
teachers and pupils. This bulletin is intended to help pro-
vide some of the material needed; it presents a resume of salient
facts about the Soviet Union, a useful bibliography, and a
reservoir of pupil activities. The bulletin can be used by teach-
ers at all school levels and by pupils in the senior high school.
It embodies a "resource unit"; from it the teacher may build
a teaching unit directly about the Soviets, or may select data
and activities for use in courses in general history or the other
social studies. The bulletin does not presuppose a special
course on the U. S. S. R. ; it is useful and suggestive to teachers of
all the social studies and humanities.
The bulletin is an outgrowth of the 1944 Summer Session of
the Harvard Workshop in the Social Studies. One section of
the Workshop, which was made possible by the aid of the
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, was focused
on the Soviet Union in the network of modern international
relations. Dr. Corliss Lamont and Dr. Dorothy Douglas di-
rected this section of the Workshop, working in full co-
operation with other staff members representing fields of pro-
fessional education. A group of teachers participating in the
program under their leadership prepared the manuscript of
this bulletin; their names appear here as authors; to them the
Harvard Workshop is deeply indebted.
Their manuscript is here made available to teachers in the
firm conviction that the area of study in which they have
pioneered is of marked significance in the adaptation of edu-
cation to the needs of our times. Their document is not a
propaganda plea; it is an effort to place facts before teachers
in an educationally useful format. It is the hope of the Harvard
Workshop that this bulletin will provide both a service and a
stimulus to further work on the part of American teachers.
Howard E. Wilson
Harvard Graduate School of Education
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? MEET THE SOVIET RUSSIANS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 1
I. Geography and Resources 7
II. Peoples and Population 15
III. History 20
IV. Soviet Life Today
A. Government 30
B. Nationality Policies 38
C. Economic Life 42
D. Provision for Social Welfare 50
E. Cultural Life 51
F. The Position of Women 63
G. Family Life 65
V. Foreign Relations 67
VI. Selected Annotated Bibliography 77
VII. Minimum Kit of Essential Teaching Materials . . 88
VIII. Directory of Sources of Teaching Aids 88
V
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?
teachers in secondary schools / by Dora A. Ames, Katrina B. Anderson,
Eunice Johns [and others]
Ames, Dora Augusta.
Cambridge, Mass. : The Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, 1944.
http://hdl. handle. net/2027/wu. 89096252051
Public Domain, Google-digitized
http://www. hathitrust. org/access_use#pd-google
This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright. Users are free to copy, use, and redistribute the work in part or in whole. It is possible that heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations, assert copyrights over these portions. Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address. The digital images and OCR of this work were produced by Google, Inc. (indicated by a watermark on each page in the PageTurner). Google requests that the images and OCR not be re-hosted, redistributed or used commercially.
The images are provided for educational, scholarly, non-commercial purposes.
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? HARVARD WORKSHOP SERIES: NO. 6
MEET THE
SOVIET RUSSIANS
A STUDY GUIDE TO THE SOVIET UNION
FOR
TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
By
Dora A. Ames, Katrina B. Anderson, Eunice
Johns, and Others
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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? WAU
THE UNION OF SOVIET SO
1ST REPUBLICS (Soviet
tjOUNBAHV LINti
_. _. . . _. AutuftmoutS. S R<<>>ukl<ct
. . . . . . . . Actual Ccwtriu rf At tL&R
jemi ? >> micu
"7 KABARDINO-
BALKARIAN
t. KALMYK
? KOMI
10 MARIISK
Ih 1) MORDVIArt
.
S REPUBLICS in the UNION REPUBLICS
11. UDMURT
14. YAKUT
15. NAKHICHEVAN
It ABKHAZIAN
17 AJARIAN
1i KARA-KALPAK
National Council of American-Soviet Friendshil
11 NORTH OSSETIAN '>> CRIMEAN
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? HARVARD WORKSHOP SERIES: NO. 6
MEET THE
SOVIET RUSSIANS
A STUDY GUIDE TO THE SOVIET UNION
FOR
TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
By
Dora A. Ames
Dartmouth High School
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Katrina B. Anderson
The Buckingham School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Eunice Johns
Horace Mann School
Gary, Indiana
and Others
Published by the Graduate School of Education
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Price, 75 Cents
? ? Generated for (University of Chicago) on 2014-06-10 17:24 GMT / http://hdl. handle. net/2027/wu. 89096252051 Public Domain, Google-digitized / http://www. hathitrust. org/access_use#pd-google
? COPYRIGHT 1944
BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
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PREFACE
A document recently issued by the bilateral Canada-United
States Committee on Education includes paragraphs which
well suggest the background for this Workshop publication. The
Committee says,
"Of the 2,175,000,000 people in the world today, only
about 50,000,000 have remained uninvolved in World Wars
I and II. No modern nation, in defense of sovereignty or
even of existence, can live unto itself alone. Each moves
within a vast network of international relations, and its
welfare is affected by events far removed from its borders. . . .
To act with wisdom in matters of national concern and in
world affairs each nation must be wise in the ways of other
nations. Ignorance and lack of understanding provide no
safe foundation for wise action. In a democratic society
the citizens of each nation must understand other nations
and respect other peoples ever more deeply. The Twentieth
Century demands wide horizons for every citizen in a
democracy. . . . To maintain democracy in the modern
world we must have, as never before, a citizenry widely
informed on world affairs and deeply concerned with the
preservation of human freedom. "
Increasing sensitivity in the United States to the international
setting and influences of our times leads inevitably to readjust-
ments and new emphases in school programs of education for
citizenship. In recent years we have begun to increase and im-
prove our instruction about Latin America and Asia; as the
source of the above quotation indicates, we are awakening to
the need for more study about Canada. Among the most seri-
ously neglected areas in our school programs today is the Soviet
Union. We teach relatively little about the Soviets; an undue
amount of what is presented seems to be inaccurate, incomplete,
and biased; out-of-school influences tend to provide much mis-
information, to be animated by prejudgments. The net result
is that we have more misinformation than information, more
heat than light, in our total educational program about one
of the major powers of the world in which our pupils must live.
One reason why our educational program in this area falls
iii
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? SU\oi
short is the scarcity of materials directed toward the use of
teachers and pupils. This bulletin is intended to help pro-
vide some of the material needed; it presents a resume of salient
facts about the Soviet Union, a useful bibliography, and a
reservoir of pupil activities. The bulletin can be used by teach-
ers at all school levels and by pupils in the senior high school.
It embodies a "resource unit"; from it the teacher may build
a teaching unit directly about the Soviets, or may select data
and activities for use in courses in general history or the other
social studies. The bulletin does not presuppose a special
course on the U. S. S. R. ; it is useful and suggestive to teachers of
all the social studies and humanities.
The bulletin is an outgrowth of the 1944 Summer Session of
the Harvard Workshop in the Social Studies. One section of
the Workshop, which was made possible by the aid of the
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, was focused
on the Soviet Union in the network of modern international
relations. Dr. Corliss Lamont and Dr. Dorothy Douglas di-
rected this section of the Workshop, working in full co-
operation with other staff members representing fields of pro-
fessional education. A group of teachers participating in the
program under their leadership prepared the manuscript of
this bulletin; their names appear here as authors; to them the
Harvard Workshop is deeply indebted.
Their manuscript is here made available to teachers in the
firm conviction that the area of study in which they have
pioneered is of marked significance in the adaptation of edu-
cation to the needs of our times. Their document is not a
propaganda plea; it is an effort to place facts before teachers
in an educationally useful format. It is the hope of the Harvard
Workshop that this bulletin will provide both a service and a
stimulus to further work on the part of American teachers.
Howard E. Wilson
Harvard Graduate School of Education
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? MEET THE SOVIET RUSSIANS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 1
I. Geography and Resources 7
II. Peoples and Population 15
III. History 20
IV. Soviet Life Today
A. Government 30
B. Nationality Policies 38
C. Economic Life 42
D. Provision for Social Welfare 50
E. Cultural Life 51
F. The Position of Women 63
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? HARVARD WORKSHOP SERIES: NO. 6
MEET THE
SOVIET RUSSIANS
A STUDY GUIDE TO THE SOVIET UNION
FOR
TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
By
Dora A. Ames, Katrina B. Anderson, Eunice
Johns, and Others
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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? HARVARD WORKSHOP SERIES: NO. 6
MEET THE
SOVIET RUSSIANS
A STUDY GUIDE TO THE SOVIET UNION
FOR
TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
By
Dora A. Ames
Dartmouth High School
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Katrina B. Anderson
The Buckingham School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Eunice Johns
Horace Mann School
Gary, Indiana
and Others
Published by the Graduate School of Education
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Price, 75 Cents
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BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
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PREFACE
A document recently issued by the bilateral Canada-United
States Committee on Education includes paragraphs which
well suggest the background for this Workshop publication. The
Committee says,
"Of the 2,175,000,000 people in the world today, only
about 50,000,000 have remained uninvolved in World Wars
I and II. No modern nation, in defense of sovereignty or
even of existence, can live unto itself alone. Each moves
within a vast network of international relations, and its
welfare is affected by events far removed from its borders. . . .
To act with wisdom in matters of national concern and in
world affairs each nation must be wise in the ways of other
nations. Ignorance and lack of understanding provide no
safe foundation for wise action. In a democratic society
the citizens of each nation must understand other nations
and respect other peoples ever more deeply. The Twentieth
Century demands wide horizons for every citizen in a
democracy. . . . To maintain democracy in the modern
world we must have, as never before, a citizenry widely
informed on world affairs and deeply concerned with the
preservation of human freedom. "
Increasing sensitivity in the United States to the international
setting and influences of our times leads inevitably to readjust-
ments and new emphases in school programs of education for
citizenship. In recent years we have begun to increase and im-
prove our instruction about Latin America and Asia; as the
source of the above quotation indicates, we are awakening to
the need for more study about Canada. Among the most seri-
ously neglected areas in our school programs today is the Soviet
Union. We teach relatively little about the Soviets; an undue
amount of what is presented seems to be inaccurate, incomplete,
and biased; out-of-school influences tend to provide much mis-
information, to be animated by prejudgments. The net result
is that we have more misinformation than information, more
heat than light, in our total educational program about one
of the major powers of the world in which our pupils must live.
One reason why our educational program in this area falls
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short is the scarcity of materials directed toward the use of
teachers and pupils. This bulletin is intended to help pro-
vide some of the material needed; it presents a resume of salient
facts about the Soviet Union, a useful bibliography, and a
reservoir of pupil activities. The bulletin can be used by teach-
ers at all school levels and by pupils in the senior high school.
It embodies a "resource unit"; from it the teacher may build
a teaching unit directly about the Soviets, or may select data
and activities for use in courses in general history or the other
social studies. The bulletin does not presuppose a special
course on the U. S. S. R. ; it is useful and suggestive to teachers of
all the social studies and humanities.
The bulletin is an outgrowth of the 1944 Summer Session of
the Harvard Workshop in the Social Studies. One section of
the Workshop, which was made possible by the aid of the
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, was focused
on the Soviet Union in the network of modern international
relations. Dr. Corliss Lamont and Dr. Dorothy Douglas di-
rected this section of the Workshop, working in full co-
operation with other staff members representing fields of pro-
fessional education. A group of teachers participating in the
program under their leadership prepared the manuscript of
this bulletin; their names appear here as authors; to them the
Harvard Workshop is deeply indebted.
Their manuscript is here made available to teachers in the
firm conviction that the area of study in which they have
pioneered is of marked significance in the adaptation of edu-
cation to the needs of our times. Their document is not a
propaganda plea; it is an effort to place facts before teachers
in an educationally useful format. It is the hope of the Harvard
Workshop that this bulletin will provide both a service and a
stimulus to further work on the part of American teachers.
Howard E. Wilson
Harvard Graduate School of Education
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? MEET THE SOVIET RUSSIANS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 1
I. Geography and Resources 7
II. Peoples and Population 15
III. History 20
IV. Soviet Life Today
A. Government 30
B. Nationality Policies 38
C. Economic Life 42
D. Provision for Social Welfare 50
E. Cultural Life 51
F. The Position of Women 63
G. Family Life 65
V. Foreign Relations 67
VI. Selected Annotated Bibliography 77
VII. Minimum Kit of Essential Teaching Materials . . 88
VIII. Directory of Sources of Teaching Aids 88
V
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