What began as Stalin’s vengeance against political enemies (real or—as is more frequently the case—imagined) is spilling over into the civilian population. They are dragged into forests and shot. Over forty thousand residents of Leningrad
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“Dad lived in fear of time. He felt it stalking him. I could see it in the worried glances he gave the sun as it moved across the sky, in the anxious way he appraised every length of pipe or cut of steel. Dad saw every piece of scrap as the money it could be sold for, minus the time needed to sort, cut and deliver it.”
― Educated
― Educated
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