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For introducing us to #Voznesenskaya24📚🐦 #TheWomensDecameron!!! What a delightful read!!! #JuliaVoznesenskaya #readinganactofsharedsolitude #paperpills🇵🇸❤️ #ReemReel #AThingOfBeauty
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And she got a good pension because of a disability incurred at her place of work. And because of that disability the railway gave her a room in Leningrad, eight square meters! Lucky Mariya!
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Many children in those days didn't just lose their parents, they lost their own names. They were given names so as to speed up the " re-education process."
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So those are happy onion tears I associate with our farewell to Kostya. And our kitchens smelt of onions, to the envy of our neighbors. Wartime onions.
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It was so sad collecting up the remaining few books, and taking the pictures off the walls that Kostya couldn't afford to take abroad with him. The newspapers had described those pictures as " untalented daubs by pathetic imitators of the West."
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Sometimes I feel that Russia herself is leaving! But why? That's just the thing: nobody knows why this exodus of creative talent from Russia is taking place. Each farewell is an ocean of tears, and the memories left afterwards are like the dry sand.
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I didn't know any fruits beside apples, water-melon and wild berries, and here they had grapes, peaches and honeydew melon.
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God, it's nice when people behave like human beings!exclaimed Zina, after the story was over.
And everyone agreed with her.
Nelya began her story next.
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I've got so many of these hats I don't know what to do with them. I've got about a dozen green ones. Maybe some of you need a green hat? Come and choose, you can have one for free!
But nobody was interested in a green hat, so Olga began her story.
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Marina was not well organized. Her one ambition was to have a black velvet dress made for herself trimmed with black Vologda lace. That dress was an ideal fixed with her, and she saved up for it for several years.
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Everybody has memories like that, it's true, said Emma, only we don't appreciate them, we're always waiting for some huge, weighty happiness. But perhaps happiness only consists of happy moments.
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I thanked the old woman and set off home. On the way I began to recall happy moments from my earliest childhood, and by the time I got home my happiness basket already contained its first treasures.
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They are sitting around watching that silly twit Pugachova on TV.
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I had Миллион, миллион, миллион алых роз (million million scarlet roses) playing in my head as I read this line! 🤭🤭
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There was a young female draughtsman called Sveta Paramonova working in our design office. A really pretty girl, but incredibly naïve. She believed, for example, that Bird's Milk sweets really were made from bird's milk. #Voznesenskaya24
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What a nightmare! Exclaimed Nelya. Do we really still have such open, helpless poverty?
Open poverty isn't so bad, answered Natasha. I think the worst of all is the poverty that's ashamed of itself.
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By some miracle a kitten got through the security fence and wandered in... Then a guard shot him for fun when he strayed into the forbidden zone. And he joked about it: I shot a zek trying to escape. I'll have to ask for extra leave!
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And you know my dears, when they brought me my new-born baby I clearly felt the bubbles splashing my face, and I caught the scent of raspberry- the symbol of happiness in the midst of suffering.
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And I had the right to choose the syrup: raspberry, cherry or strawberry. And when I lifted the glass to my lips and caught the smell of the fruit and felt the tiny bubbles splashing my face- that was happiness!
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Of course not! I think they have a poor life. It lacks substance.
Yes, they don't experience our joys! Laughed Galina. I wish we didn't have to either.
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You see what a happy life women have in this country, Galina? We manage to get something special and it makes us happy for three days. And you're always grumbling at the government. Do you think women in the West have any concept of the joys of life?
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Elizabeth, have your twins ever tasted bananas?
Not yet. They hadn't even heard about what a banana was like, and so as not to whet their appetites too much I said it was like potato with sugar.
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In the end, my two noble friends had a row and fell out, though not over a man, but over aremark Lilya made about one of Lyalya's pictures. Lyala got her own back by calling Lilya a Pushkoholic. Neither of them could forget that, and they split up.
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It was in memory of that hour that she did the drawing of the marsh tea.
That's the sort of miracle one person can give another. Actually, I don't know who got more out of it. Masha, who was given an hour of freedom, or the Lieutenant who gave it to her.
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Do you really value freedom so highly?
Yes, certainly.
Then why do you do things that land you up in camp? I just don't understand the logic. Now you've lost absolutely all your freedom, haven't you?
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I wonder if those space- dogs Belka and Strelka turned up their noses at all the mongrels when they got back?
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I don't understand why they want to attack us when they got everything over there.
The conversation moved from politics to babies' pants, and the tension relaxed.
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She complained to the militia so many times, but they ways said the same thing:" It’s a family matter!"
There's even a poem about that: "Threats do not concern us. If he kills you, come and tell us."
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The women were taking a risk coming to accompany her. Of course it wasn't far to the camp gate, but at least it was some sort of procession. That was the kind of woman she was- you had to give her some sort of send-off.
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One other thing I will say is that Dilka still looks good, although she doesn't have that twinkle in her eyes that had appeared before. She has stern eyes.
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