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I looked it up and there are several proposed etymologies. A village by that name exists in Cantabria. The surname first appears in 11th-century Castille, and its oldest recorded appearences in Portugal date to the 16th century. It means hut or hillside in Castillian and floodplain in Portuguese. Genealogical records show Vargas' earliest known ancestor using that surname was António José de Vargas (1724-1792), who moved from the Azores to southern Brazil.
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> Until middle-late Soviet times there were common exercise for infantry called something like "tank training", when tanks are moved over soldier laying between tracks.
Suvorov mentions this on "Inside the Soviet Army". But why was it abandoned? Did training standards get softer with time?