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Wojtek the Soldier Bear Statue

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    April 9, 2019

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    Statue commemorating "Wojtek", a Syrian brown bear who was enlisted in the Polish army.

    Details here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)

    April 15, 2023

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    Wojtek (1942 – 2 December 1963; Polish pronunciation: [ˈvɔjtɛk]; in English, sometimes phonetically spelled Voytek and pronounced as such) was a Syrian brown bear[1][2] (Ursus arctos syriacus) bought, as a young cub, at a railway station in Hamadan, Iran, by Polish II Corps soldiers who had been evacuated from the Soviet Union. In order to provide for his rations and transportation, he was eventually enlisted officially as a soldier with the rank of private, and was subsequently promoted to corporal.

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