Tusi se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - 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, na auai i le osofa'iga a le Warsaw Pact i Czechoslovakia, Operation Danube
. O lenei mea na tupu o loo faamatalaina i lana tusi o le 1981 "The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army".