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Europe: the Slavonic languages

(1) Czech: howitzer, pistol, robot.
(2) Polish: mazurka, polka.
(3) Russian: agitprop, borsch, cosmonaut, czar/tsar, dros(h)ky, glasnost, gulag, perestroika, pogrom, samizdat, samovar, steppe, troika, vodka.

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