 It's a story, by the way, that the Russians remember well, but most Americans are unaware of. This is from the prologue, Nizhny Gora, Russia, January 19th, 1919. They've been expecting it for weeks, hell, months. And so the men of Company A to the 339th Infantry Regiment, the polar bears, as they would come to call themselves, have stood night and day in 40 below zero temperatures.