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Can I describe everything as it really was?! Probably not. Because ti was nonetheless someone else's grief. [...] But perhaps it is the most valuable thing that I can leave people in memory of that time and of myself. After all, now, already, almost no one living in Leningrad after the war knows or wants to know about the Siege.
From the memoirs of Ol'ga Nikolaevna Grechina
— Feb 15, 2018 11:03PM
From the memoirs of Ol'ga Nikolaevna Grechina
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Paradoxically, in a country founded on the principles of communist internationalism, our informants continually highlighted individual differences. Equally paradoxically, most of these besieged citizens discovered in this catastrophe that they belonged, indeed, to the "world of nations." [...] This fact suggests a reconsideration of the degree to which Soviet ideology affected human behavior.
From: Conclusion
— Feb 17, 2018 07:51AM
From: Conclusion
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Right now I am keeping a diary, it is a diary of perestroika. But in fifty years this diary will acquire a different meaning. And that's exactly what happened here. Many things that no one attributed any significance to in those days now have acquired great value.
Interview in 1995 with Ol'ga Il'inichna Markhaeva, museum researcher
— Feb 17, 2018 02:42AM
Interview in 1995 with Ol'ga Il'inichna Markhaeva, museum researcher
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...one count of indictment in the Leningrad Affair was that Leningrad was collecting a "military arsenal," and that it was being collected at the Museum of the Defense of Leningrad. It's an absurd indictment, but in those days you could claim anything [...] And people believed, or pretended to believe, because of fear. People were afraid.
Interview in 1995 with Ol'ga Il'inichna Markhaeva, museum researcher
— Feb 17, 2018 02:42AM
Interview in 1995 with Ol'ga Il'inichna Markhaeva, museum researcher
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Leningrad definitely had to perform it—after all it was the Leningrad Symphony. Well this, of course, took a great deal of work. [...] While they tried to hold of a score, there was a search for musicians. This was already the summer of 1942. They would find out which units the musicians were in and send out a dispatch that so-and-so was needed to perform the Leningrad Symphony.
Kseniia Makianovna Matus
— Feb 16, 2018 09:44AM
Kseniia Makianovna Matus
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...in the concert hall there were only the ghosts of listeners, and on the stage the ghosts of performers. Because the men who played the brass instruments couldn't hold them in their hands---they were beginning to freeze. [...] But when [Eliasberg] started to conduct, his hands shook. And I had this feeling that he was a bird that had been shot, and any moment he would plummet.
Kseniia Makianovna Matus
— Feb 16, 2018 09:42AM
Kseniia Makianovna Matus
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One day, I remember, I felt worn out, [...] but I went out because someone had to bring water. To walk as far as the Priazhka was unthinkable. And that day there was big snowfall and I collected snow [...] and my aunt decided to make soup out of bread crumbs. And, you know, it turned into such a tragedy for us, it was such a pity, [...] it turned out to be absolutely inedible.
Natal'ia Vladimirovna Stroganova
— Feb 16, 2018 02:56AM
Natal'ia Vladimirovna Stroganova
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No one talked about the leaders, and in general, that theme was forbidden. Of course, the people didn't like Zhdanov, because he was a "fat cat," the only fat cat we saw. Our lower-level leaders—Andreev, Popkov, Voznesenkii, whom Stalin had executed (he accused them of wanting to make Leningrad an autonomous city)—they were a little better. Andreev was a very good man.
Ol'ga Nikolaevna Grechina
— Feb 16, 2018 02:06AM
Ol'ga Nikolaevna Grechina
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Two or three times per year I would have to give a lecture on the blockade. [...] But I maintained strict self-control of the "veteran reporter." I knew that if the wall within me that held the physical memory of the blockade were to collapse, I could not go on.
From the memoirs of Ol'ga Nikolaevna Grechina
— Feb 15, 2018 10:53PM
From the memoirs of Ol'ga Nikolaevna Grechina
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First, he fell to his knees, and then he collapsed onto his back and lay on the pavement. I was terrified. I started to beg the passerby to help get him home, I promised them bread, but the people passed by, unconcerned, not glancing at him.
From the memoirs of Sof'ia Nikolaevna Buriakova
— Feb 15, 2018 10:45PM
From the memoirs of Sof'ia Nikolaevna Buriakova
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What played the decisive role was the feeling of civic patriotism, the realization patriotic duty—at the cost of lives and deprivations to defend the freedom and independence of our fatherland.
From the memoirs of Sof'ia Nikolaevna Buriakova
— Feb 15, 2018 10:44PM
From the memoirs of Sof'ia Nikolaevna Buriakova
