my dear dear diary i am so happy. this is been the best summer of my life. i am a student now and i am going to the village with mom we will have strawberries and on the terrace. taking my favorite guitar. what a beautiful summer what a wonderful life is waiting for me. the chinese friends made me a guitar on the stimulus that is so i started playing the seven string guitar i played quite well he played it well to some level that i started when i was about ten years old. he saw me in the park it was

a sunny day she was too shy to approach me i saw him in the corner of my eye there was some sentimental song playing in my mind i'm trying to remember it now but i can't something sad for some reason maybe it's because i'm leaving the city for the whole summer and won't see him until a lot of people. drawing the picture. nobody expects me to in that way through a good note. whizzed

up doesn't exist there were no passenger trains so we walked to let a grat. we couldn't recognize it will take was crisscrossed over all the windows all the shop windows were blocked with the sandbags stick down but they left some of the statues like a bronze horseman that is is that even that was also covered with sand bags. so we could recognize our own city in a day the whole city was locked in. this streets emptied my

last friend left leningrad. at least mom and dad are with me we're not going anywhere we will stay until the end. i know this war will be over soon they said on the radio that it won't be for long. we are a big and strong country. i know it will be over soon i will see him. he will be back and we will be happy. you know that but bush will love and the first bombs hit house number one hundred nine on netsky prospect of those though and my dad's factory still like the germans wanted to bomb everything the most costly railway station and the train tracks leading to moscow. they were dropping bombs everywhere there were so many casualties when i heard about it i rushed to my dad's factory and met my geography teacher the head of the. one but he

knew my dad well voodoo they had served in the imperial army together he told me recently your father's alive don't worry about him but yeah so you. told me there was no place to escape to so they just had to carry all those bombay exams but lost their legs or arms or just more little. he's somewhere on the front no fighting the fascists he must be really close the germans are already in the outskirts of leningrad and i haven't got a single letter from him how was he is he wounded i still dream about the. three of them when there was a fishmonger next to us on rubenstein street for word of world war three take up several times of study trying to ferry the world with the sure pyramid server chaffee are crap or on display what are the use the shops were always full of good

will only do for the moment pay you one day mum went on which sold out all the shelves were empty. things disappeared like that in a flash. but after that they started the food rationing. this is terrible were threatened with starvation we only have one hundred twenty five grams of bread but soon will only have bread crumbs a famine is coming a real one. there hasn't been a single day that i felt full you leave the table still feeling as though you want to eat. mom asks me are you full i say of course i am. because i don't want to upset or. i don't think we can survive we will never eat

properly. at least we still have ron mom makes flat bread from it it's not very filling but at least you feel as though you have something in your stomach for a little while at least. for the dad brought us to ride that it's what's left over from making some flour. they used it to feed it to cattle to. day it was very difficult to chew but mom tried to make it edible. jell in she boiled it as much as she could tell if it even adding charcoal. it was still tred full to eat but there was nothing else so that's what we had. been walking along rubenstein street. will have russian. built but given these bottles of syrup they called it was sort of like sweetened water with real cool would you well

someone dropped the bottle through a part of the smashed i'm also into the ground with strange sweat as happened i saw it with my own eyes. the people were crawling around trying to lick what they could off the ground with the word use the room this is what the seats did to people feel the ship of the. media in november they bombed the diet ski warehouses the fire lasted for a few days it was awful the fire was huge the whole of living grad could see it if it was the main storage place for all the food in the city. so much that the entire storage facility was leveled to the ground zero the people who were eating the.

because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't it was nothing else to eat so many people ate that oh dad brought home some glue were afraid at first but then mambo that healing and it turned into jelly we ate it with vinegar that's what saved us. i just want to cry cry and cry some more i have such a heavy heart i'm sick of everything. even of life. starvation and famine everywhere and people keep dying sleds carry the dead through the streets from morning to night leningrad is popular has decreased dramatically almost two million people have already died. i visited our neighbor today her father died yesterday she was wrapped in a sheet and taken away in

a sled. my only destruction now is my books. but we delivered books that the wards had quite often and i would read to the wounded soldiers. knitted up a little there's a bill once i went to one ward and said aloud what should i read which they said anything but nothing about war yet he still but so i decided to read pushkin see if getting any good to them at that was a good he writes about a duel and that one of the soldiers said already you promised to read nothing about war but these two have just shot each other up well that was quite awkward. and the hospital today i wanted soldier told me that if you had died they would have told me by now. neither food nor letters can get through this siege just be sure to survive i will wait for you i have all your pictures my most treasured

possessions. in the sky i did my first royal for my window with being articulate i mean gold and this is where the sphinx is can be say i'm new here in my sketch pad which. we have to cover the sphinx as with wooden boards i do a sketch about that. it's called the view from the arctic out of the window. today is my birthday today i thought folk dad brought two small frozen any ends and a hundred grams of raisins his whole ration. mom cooked noodles and mixed oil and bowl down eons with. the noodles were lovely and grease. the ne and completely had

the taste of grease the first course was jelly made from. mom brought home one hundred fifty grams of meat today what a pleasure it was to eat just a little meat i tried to make it last as long as i possibly could it was such bliss i just want to eat eat and eat but most importantly we are still all together and on my mom dad and me. another spring in leningrad i used to love it and now i hate it so much it brings no love anymore only death. starlit nights just look like a mass grave. another summer without you. for a whole year i haven't received a single letter from you. i know you cannot be alive anymore i will never be happy again. the spring is.

in april all the people of leningrad went out to clean the city streets we were expecting an epidemic because the dead were everywhere and there was a roll sewage flowing past houses because the sewage system was not working. so they told everybody to go out and clean up the city and everybody did. that even those who could barely hold a tool in their hands went out to break up the ice. leningrad became so clean it was a real joy to see it. in may the trans started working again. i will never forget this day i can't believe dad is gone. news of his death was

too sad and. even today this morning we talked about him thinking he was alive remembering different things about him and we were happy that he looked relatively well. it turned out though that by then he was already gone. i cannot believe he's gone it can't be how i wanted to be a mistake it's hard it's terrible we didn't even say goodbye. a few days ago i broke my mare into pieces i was waiting for a disaster and my fears came true in the most horrible way. i cry all the time. there was nobody with it was buried in a mass grave. well

it's on your show come on in washington d.c. making news all the face i think you know. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman got killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess the police officers don't beat people

anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were off taking they could get what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. he'd. my mum was very ill. no one day dad said we were not going to the bomb shelter. that night there was incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath here nobody saw. more than. a few people were too exhausted even to

remove the rubble and it was so cold that the temperature was still certain degrees below zero and it didn't get any better word of road bomber the entire month of january february and march it was so cold thirty to forty degrees below should we could never even at the fire go out water would freeze instantly. we took the sleds over to but couldn't prospect we put little buckets on to the sleds and there was a hole in the ice close to the riverbank. although sometimes we went there to get water that it was easy to lose the buckets when we climbed back up the embankment but i gather of the water would splash over the rim of the buckets will be pulling those sleds was very difficult because the ground was completely frozen yellow a lot but still we kept going and taking those two buckets back home now we drank

that water and use it to wash there was nowhere else to get it and. the bombing is not as bad as the starvation and. i'm sold then starvation has caused mom stomach to swell she's in the hospital. i will not see her again. the doctors say she won't survive. my dear mom i can't leave you i don't want to live without you i'm all alone. mommy. yellowed what else i spent new year's eve of nine hundred forty three alone he was very difficult. we had three separate apartments joined by a long corridor but all of them were empty because everyone had been evacuated so i

was alone in three apartments it was that what you said we were boards e.l.o. as it was dark because we had no electricity. no electricity no water. there was no heat at all and we had no firewood either you're full of. the worst has happened i am sick i can't stand up and i'm freezing they're breaking up wooden houses and leningrad outside it is thirty degrees below inside it's only minus ten . water freezes in doors every day go by tram to the demolished houses i just have the energy to carry a single small plank i'm not using the firewood just in case mom suddenly comes back. out of the issues or was they let me see her in hospital yeah but i went expecting to see her round puffy face which they saw you but i just saw

a skinny woman in the my mom i wish my dear mom that she looked so thin like there. i'm so happy i have recovered i've been back on my feet for two days when i saw myself in the mirror i was scared i saw a completely unfamiliar golden skeletal face i now look at least thirty but that doesn't matter even if i do look like a skeleton the most important thing is i'm not sick. comrades people of leningrad the siege of leningrad has been broken by the heroic red army soldiers have built all railway across all. liberated country devolve destroyers k. railway workers will be arriving today with the first train from the heartland.

january seventeenth one thousand nine hundred forty three the focus of the day the siege finally ended when we heard the noise from us so just guns we were so happy. the siege took millions of lives. even now we don't know exactly how many. but when the blockade was over will people started sending in food from all over the country. i'm feeling better now i go to the alexander nevsky ministry to take grass make soup with it it's a pity there are no nettles in leningrad they're quite tasty we have bread now the only thing that upsets me still is the bombing it's more frequent now. will we stay

alive. i even want to play my guitar again i just wish the bombing of leningrad would stop. it but on the ship i was really scared by the air raid sirens isn't it that they were lots of them but each of the anti aircraft guns fired planes were flying with them and there was a lot who are all over the sea or it was terrifying and the sirens carried on and one after the other i have no idea how our soldiers and officers cope with all that . when the bombing is over a look to the sky i don't know if god exists but i feel he's up there some. they say he doesn't exist but if you do please let my love come back down here to. i spent most of the seats on the rooftops. but

nobody told us to do that. but they were always dropping fire bombs though so we had no choice but to get out there to save our hosts fergus would go. mom says i'm crying in my sleep i said that i was scared of the bomb. i saw him in a dream wounded and then dead i saw his pale face and his blue eyes looking at me his lips were white he's begging help me save me i'm waiting for him the genius cut short by a bomb. didn't you the germans were shelling the city that way you see us they knew the location of every tram stop because i deal with so we had to move them every single day and use the well they don't they live that'll do it they were firing at the tram stops at the same people who are going to work when the attack started there was no way to escape it and if there was that the showing was quite

far from the buildings around in the border and a sound. but that the view there was no cover to hide under the. so there were plenty of casualties. they were firing at maternity homes he was. trying to target crowded places. they did that it put quite a long time. from leningrad today is the twenty seventh of january nineteenth forty four our moment of triumph as a half. pray the blockade is over we one we have survived i want to cry to cry of joy. mama survive two i miss my dad so much my dear dad we are alive greeted. just to feel like i think. today there will be fireworks people are exhausted but they will still take to the streets my dear

dear diary he's alive he's returned from the front he's lost weight i have not been this happy since before the war for the first time in my life i want to cry because i'm so happy. we will walk along the river spring will come to leningrad again. now i know that we will have a long and happy life. i am certain of. you

know my guitar is here i can get it but if you would imagine please might even help me with my guitar. and i thank you you're welcome. oh sorry well if you know how to treat it better than i do sorry i can play.

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anybody but if somebody would you would just prefer. i know to say more and more is this really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to own a gun to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth were clearly not the safest. if you. start to construct. gears don't want to meet. in a lot of. the time. came be we can

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