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слединение

English translation: operational formations

20:48 Nov 10, 2009

Russian to English translations [PRO]
Military / Defense / military organization

Russian term or phrase: слединение

This is the beginning of the text of a Warsaw Pact telegram to the Polish General Staff after the WP invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968:

Слединения и части второй армии Войска Польского...с честью выполнили задачу... (to make Czechoslovakia safe for Communism for another 21 years)

I can only find two hits on this word in Google.ru. (so maybe it's a valid word?)

Объединения is wrong for this context since an army IS an объединение. I presume it should be Соединения but that's a multi-letter garble in otherwise clean text.

Can this word nevertheless be valid?

GaryG KudoZ activity Questions: 101 (none open) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 2095 United States
Local time: 23:36

English translation:operational formations

Explanation:
Соединения и части
A typo.

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Note added at 21 mins (2009-11-10 21:09:41 GMT)
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I think a repetitive typo might result from:
1) AutoCorrect command in MS Word (with invalid input string)
2) OCR recognition mistakes (Adobe Acrobat)
3) A typo in any translation memory that might have been used (if the strings are similar).

Anyway, there is definitely no such term as "слединение".
Any matches that Google might find are typos - the keys "О" and "Л" are very close on the keyboard.

Selected response from:

Roman Karabaev
Russian Federation
Local time: 08:36

Grading comment

Thanks for confirming this, Roman.
BTW, the standard Defense Department translation for соединение is formation and for объединение it's "large formation"
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3 +2	operational formations	Roman Karabaev
4	union	Vasu Valluri

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operational formations

Roman Karabaev
Russian Federation
Local time: 08:36
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Grading comment

Thanks for confirming this, Roman.
BTW, the standard Defense Department translation for соединение is formation and for объединение it's "large formation"