To: Prodigal Son
CCCP represents the Cyrillic characters for SSSR, which is how it would be transliterated into the Roman alphabet. Presumably the sergeant was translating what he saw into the usual American version, which is USSR.
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07/04/2003 7:31:50 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
CCCP represents the Cyrillic characters for SSSRI'm aware of this. Just seemed a bit odd. That's all.
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