The St. Petersburg Times - Feature - Role of Heroic Four-Legged Friends in War Celebrated

Eye-witnesses of the Victory Parade held in Moscow on June 24, 1945, remember a detachment of dog-handlers with their charges parading across Red Square. Among those who had the honor of taking part was Dzhulbars, a dog who was famed at the time. Possessed with an incredible ability to detect explosives with his sense of smell, Dzhulbars saved architectural masterpieces in Prague, Vienna, Hungary and Romania. The dog had been injured and deemed unable to take part in the procession, until Stalin himself ordered that Dzhulbars be carried across Red Square in Stalin’s own overcoat.

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