Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: I le 1968, na faauu ai Suvorov ma le mamalu mai le Frunze Red Banner Higher Military Command School i Kiev. I le tausaga lava lea e tasi, sa tautua ai o ia i Chernivtsi o se ta'ita'i o le autau a le 145th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment, 66th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division, o le Carpathian Military District i Ukraine, sa auai i le osofa'iga a le Warsaw Pact i Czechoslovakia,
Galuega Faatino o le Danube. O lenei mea na tupu o loo faamatalaina i lana tusi o le 1981 "The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army".