tv [untitled] October 13, 2012 11:30pm-12:00am EDT
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postman nicholai simeonoff will now take his heavy bag and head to remote villages where the people illegally await him as well as letters newspapers and magazines he also brings them food village grocery stores have long since vanished not even a loaf of bread can be bold. he won't you know if you want me to write down pies yes plays and tangerines. one kilogram is enough for. the elderly people here only manage their lives in these villages because of the postman's help. by car tractor will sned every single day
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nikolai travels to these hamlets without fail. people always hasta his health some need to have a new floor others have a vegetable garden the needs to be plowed or a roof repaired. brought. home. to. a silly high. look this is the man who used to be all placement. bacilli should cause houses all but flooded after his rotten roof sprang a leak following a downpour the postman put his mailbag aside and set about patching it up no one else here could do it. the wood is all rotten. but still he also worked as
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a postman for the best part of his life like nikolai he had a daily round but in those days there were only newspapers and magazines and he sank. ok let's go. when i was a postman there were many people in the villages. i would bring in the wee newspapers letters or parcels. back then there was no need for me to help the residents. but now those scarcely anybody around. so the people who need help. you know i have one in my house only an old woman lives there by. someone younger i come to see her. and she visits me at my place not. in those
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ten hens will be pensioned off soon. for the few surviving households left in the village this postman is now a lifeline. are what we have it's leaking as you can see it's completely ruined which means. if you fix your roof everything will be ok again the roof doesn't leak anymore. so he brings us you food firewood and so on. and shorty is a real treasure. nicholai simeon olds postal route takes him through about a dozen old villages young people have long since abandoned them and moved to the city. only elderly people remain living in their dilapidated houses.
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in these rural communities a far from major roads in some of the country lanes a club with mud. in winter snow as for sightseeing there's only an old church which fell into ruin in the one nine hundred thirty s. it's stone threatens to fall on passers by at any moment. and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights and the waters increased and bore up the ark and it was lifted up above the earth the rain has been pouring down on the villages where nicholai works for more than a week the postman's are called something unusual human communication mutual assistance and selflessness these qualities are rapidly fading away from the face of the world today. or can i come in.
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there i've run out of milk but now this much will last a long time well no really i think it will last until wednesday. i think so too. i'll fetch you some firewood. eighty year old make. is the last inhabitant of this hamlet. former neighbors sometimes come here but he prefers to steer clear of them. see i can't even raise my right hand. i'm like a skinny accordion. there were seventy eight households in a village code but i know. we were a close knit bunch. we always helped one another. but now you can count the people
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still living here on the fingers of one hand. for some reason they're quite mean i'll be damned if i know. i makes a point of seeing the elderly man several times a week michelle's son died a long time ago and his wife died recently the postman is now his only visitor. is just me all alone i often talk to my mother and wife when looking at these photos sometimes i even with. time for me. thanks for coming. but. i
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wish nicholai came to see me every day then we would talk our heads off and i would be better off. but i understand that he too has his hands full. he has to go places all the time. he little troublemaker. that's not everything. now let's take the baggage. depending on the time of year uses different means of transport sometimes he drives a car but generally a tractor is the better choice if a tractor can't handle the journey he rides his horse. was there any one receipt. yes one.
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zero you didn't bring me anything pies or sweets because you're on horseback. what you know what do you want from me don't touch don't touch. oh are you talking to me i'm not talking to you i mean the whole. nikolai's horses been with him for more than ten years and the postman knows his mood all too well and thinks the horse is pretty lazy. delivering mail to people is no fun for him he'd rather be back at the stable as soon as possible. which we. will get back you hold again. the mailman is also a mouse the craftsman of stoves. villages can do without them in winter they
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keep their homes warm and in summer males are cooked on top nicholai boasts that he's already made more than one hundred such stoves. still but he trying to set some time aside for work but he share it turns out that i've got no time but i try to scale down my work in the villages and do something for my own household but such plans never come to fruition in that case i'd have to choose between doing something for them and my own for example i have a beehive to take care of the honey needs to be harvested in good time otherwise basan wasps will pinch it old. villages a surprise to the postman's high morals he doesn't drink or engage in idle chit chat he prefers to turn up his sleeves and get down to work.
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many women here hold him up as an example to the husbands and sons. there's an old oak tree near the house where the village postman lives with his family it was planted by nikolai's ancestors three hundred years ago. the back yard is set aside for pets and chickens the house is full of children. and gold spoken to noah saying go forth from the ark that i know invite wife and vice sons and by sons wives with the bring forth with the every living thing that is with all flesh. is like no it's all right god told no it to build an ark and bring animals of every description on board and he ordered them to multiply again forty days and nights here. have seven children two of the daughters
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a married and live elsewhere but the still drawn back to the house where they were born they often bring their families to the village nikolai's younger children are about to finish high school with my old as taste twenty six years old in dashes twenty four in martial. soon to be twenty three then comes out to show me he's eighteen seventeen will be sixteen and it. will be fifteen soon when all members of the family get together sixteen people show up at a time when nikolai often jokes that he has a whole village under his roof. with these four kids are born right here and not in eternity ward and john was born in late march when no evidence would have been able to get here i didn't like the idea of being driven back home in a tractor certainly not with a baby in my arms so i do what needed to be done without leaving home. mario tell maria. to you is berg. her in rolled
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into our city. how long we would be here i'll be here another week just a week. yes so you're helping your father. his father take bread to nearby villages the roads between them all but impossible in spring and autumn especially if it's raining and nikolai has to hurry because people are waiting for. the bread van stops at the old church it can go any further because the road ends here the van visits just twice a week people from a dozen villages flock here to queue for the loaves in eager expectation of the vans arrival. many travels several kilometers on foot for the chance of getting a fresh loaf as in the winter that the roads are covered with snow how can you get
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around. to drag. i tied it together and came to touch the un to get groceries. out of pretty there's no other way. a sled is not an option because it rolls over. yet it can be awful at times. a while ago grocery stores were a common sight in these villages. as the local population dwindled the shops disappeared the owners realized that carrying supplies over difficult roads was not paying off.
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these women have baked many cakes and place them out for both the local residents and those coming here to their country houses. people don't stay at home on this day. they sing songs and congratulate each other instead as the haymaking marking the end of summer is complete. milledge postman nicholai simeonoff also drops by to celebrate the holiday. when he arrives the locals reveal what the newspapers have been writing about him. headlines call him a remarkable person for helping his fellow villagers. and the award goes to nikolai stimulant of for his active participation in the life of the village. thank you.
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get back the next day nikolai heads to a local bank to take out a loan for a new car his old one often breaks down because he's been taking it over country roads but the bank won't lend to nikolai. i don't know why i got turned down or used to get money from the bank before and don't forget to take your documents with the show of course. i wanted to buy a second hand car. i was going to borrow one hundred thousand rubles about three thousand dollars but the. last time i went there. they told me that there was no money available and would. absolutely nothing. better shame. the villages love
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nikolai and feel a little sorry for him because they believe that his profession will soon be made redundant newspapers letters and transactions are becoming increasingly electronic i have a daughter who is sixteen i think that her generation is unlikely to use postal services when we already live in the new century that offers a variety of computer technology so i don't think they will need the post office. some twenty to thirty years from now there won't be a village here nothing will remain as it is now. when i started working. used to be a big village. and now there's no more
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normally a vendor square. and creche cause there's only one house remaining. well they say we're going to see the end of the world on december the twenty first who were going to which december the twenty first this year. they're going to. list you in the group or yes. so it's time to build a bunker. yes this time but a bungles not a solution but you'll get drowned here. ok it's time for me to go. have a good time am. ok i'll try. me
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shimmied said come out. on. my take the bread. come here. take it or what's up don't think give you any brad. conway here yes the one for the brad practically all the family has gathered at nikolai's house this get together is devoted to his granddaughter victoria she's just started school and they've given a new bag they've also promised to get her a smartphone with internet access as a present all the members of the same yana family except nikolai use the devices even though this multi-talented postman can repair a tractor install the stove and cover a roof he stays away from computers but now our dad has a hard time using a south phone and has to resort to mom's help daddy can it make headway with the t.v.
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set but not their mode control he always asks me to help out as we used to spend on paper before and now computers have totally replays them i write down when potatoes are planted how many rows and what kind and when it's time to get out and how much of a yield i got. to my struggles with the thought that one day a soulless machine and emails will take over the role of postman and letters. his children though try to convince their father that there is something good about computers to. talk here like on a telephone but with the keyboard. just wrote. he says hi. and immediately answers. well it is usually longer. you can write loads here. old people prefer letters that's
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just out of habit bill first you can send everything via the internet especially business less is all possible split still yes there was no telephone or internet before but now the technology has become faster of. a lot has happened during the life of form a postman. today uses a mobile phone and has a satellite dish but he remembers when the village saw its first t.v. set a major event for everyone. once the t.v. set was. screened was says facing the window. gather together to watch it. all neighbors gave me this i know i don't know whom to call. nikolai has come to visit again with his son jim they want to finish the repairs on
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his roof and of also brought him a fresh newspaper. the world is changing rapidly but human values remain thanks to people like nikolai some your. home is on the way nikolai and his son have laid a new roof giving vasily the tide home to live in for many more years. i mean saw. a city in europe on the host of the twenty fourth winter the pick of.
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