Ivan Konstantinovich Kanidi. Physical education teacher, 74 years old, veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Until the last minute, he was attempting to save children who looked to him for hope. He shielded them with his body. The guerillas had offered to let him leave the school, but he asked that children be released in his place, and remained in the school. He rendered two explosive devices harmless. After the explosions he tried to seize a machinegun from a guerilla and was shot to death.
He died like a Russian. You don't say that so and so PVT of 101st Airborne died like a German or a Costa Rican or an Italian. You say, he died like an American. This man might have been of greek ancestry but considering the greeks were in that area 1,000 years ago and have not been part of "greece" or Byzantium for about as long, he died like a member of the country he lived in and the military he had served in.