ways that this doesn't using methods and there were no passenger trains so we walked to let a grat. we couldn't recognize that though walk tape was crisscrossed over all the windows all the shop windows are blocked with the sandbags stick down but they left some of the statues like a bronze horseman that is the middle east and even that was also covered with sandbags. so we could recognize our own city in a day the whole city was locked down. this street 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. to get over that bush the beloved and the first bombs hit house number one hundred night on the ski prospect of those though and my dad's factory still that's the chairman's wanted to bomb everything on 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 dead. he knew my dad well video they had served in the imperial army together paid. told me recently your father's alive don't worry about him that's

yet to get will. 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 a little. piece 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 the world was free to take up several kinds of stood to return fare who were aboard for sure pyramid server chaffee or crab or on display motors in the woods the shops were always full of good school only two for the food when we pay you one day mom went and we've sold it all the shelves were empty all your. 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 a hundred and twenty five grams of bread but soon we'll only have bread crumbs a famine is coming a real one. there hasn't been a single day that i felt full to 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 again. at least we still have run my. 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. dad brought us to rad 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 but even adding charcoal. it was still trefoil to eat but there was nothing else so that's what we had. been walking along rubenstein street . we all have russian carts to be given these bottles of syrup they called it was sort of like sweetened water with real cool would you well someone dropped the bottle you threw up out of the smashed i'm also into the ground

and she will swear this happened i saw it with my own eyes. the people were crawling around trying to make what they could off the ground with the words used to warm. to people feel the ship of the. me. in november they bombed the ski warehouses the fire lasted for a few days it was awful the fire was huge the whole of leningrad 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 your people were eating the earth 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 mom boiled that healing and it turned into jelly we ate it with vinegar that's what saved us. i just want to cry i 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 spa people a shin 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 as there's a bill once i went to one ward and said well what should i read which they said anything but nothing about war yet is still about so i decided to read pushkin to have gideon a get into them at that was a good he writes about a duel and that you are one of the soldiers said you promise to read nothing about war these two have just shot each other oh 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 sorry i did my first royal from

a window with arctic air to me and this is where the sphinx is can be the same. here in my sketchpad where. we have to cover the sphinx as with wooden boards. a sketch about that to me is called the view from the article to me window. today is my birthday today i felt full dad brought two small frozen any ends and a hundred grams of raisins his whole ration. mom cooked noodles and mixed oil and boil down aeons 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 in the spring is my last. 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 is a lot more you. need. 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. it's. going to reach an agreement with the israelis as israelis have to accept the fact that you know the patient has to. put your money to the palestinian who are huge

just folks and they have to realize that you know didn't have to didn't go. on the notion of his children and i don't allow the palestinians to have feet you know god's truth planted on a future i still have so pretty loaded on to the city but you know chill out conditions and vicious conditions to me you know goes to a state this and this so it is under the control of the of the stimulus this is look i'm i'm just not going to have a good us nor the israelis nor the medical records all of us of it had authorized this addition to the three for the complete. well. done technology innovation called the least

a melon mince from around russia we've got the future covered. police be told language. will use programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on. reporting from the will talks about seventy r.p. interviews intriguing stories for you to. see in trying. to find out more visit arabic don't know it's called. i know c.n.n. m s n b c and fox news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one up. that happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and i think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on you.

and our teen years we have a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you guys stick to the jokes will handle them. when my mum was very ill. and 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 and nobody survived or. people were too exhausted to

even to remove the rubble and it was so cold. the temperature was still certain degrees below zero. and it didn't get any better word of road the mud 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 backward in prospect we put little buckets on to the sleds there was a hole in the ice close to the riverbank. although sometimes we went there to get water here throughout the trip it was easy to lose the buckets when we climbed back up the embankment but i q the water would splash over the rim of the buckets will be putting those sleds was very difficult because the ground was completely frozen yellow. but still kept going and taking those two buckets back home now we drag

that water and use it to wash there was no where else to get it from. the bombing is not as bad as the starvation and. i'm so then. starvation has caused mom stomach to swell she's in the hospital. i will not see her again. to die. her 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. lonely walk in the childless i spent new year's eve of nine hundred forty three alone it 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 yet still 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. and we had no firewood either you will for. 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. that any of those issues are was they let me see her in hospital yeah

but i went expecting to see her round puffy face which for you what i just saw a skinny woman in the my mom wish my dear mom or did she look 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 old and 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 letting grads the siege of leningrad has been broken by the heroic red army the soldiers have built all railway across our liberated country deval destroyers the 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 our soldiers guns we were so happy . the scenes took millions of lives. even now we know exactly how many. was. when the blockade was over people started sending in food from all over the country . i'm feeling better now i go to the alexander nevsky ministry to pick grass my make soup but 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 bomb 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 on the chin i was really scared by the air raid sirens isn't there were lots of them but each. any aircraft guns fired planes were flying with them and there was a lot who are all over the city or it was terrifying and the sirens carried on and one after the hour. other than 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 does exist but i feel he's up there some. day saying he doesn't exist but if you do please let my love come back down here to . look why i spent

most of the seats on the rooftops. bus one like nobody told us to do that. but they were always dropping fire bombs though so we had no choice but to get up 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. exploded it was old the germans were shelling the city subways yes they knew the location of every tram stop because i deal with so we had to move them every single day and yes they did out well that and a number of that'll do they were firing at the tram stops at the people who were

going to work when the attack started there was no way to escape to do that if it was that the showing was quite far from the buildings around gusty need to board and a sauce. but that the view there was no cover to hide under the. so there were plenty of casualties. they were firing at maturity homesick he was still. trying to target crowded places. they did that in your book quite a long time. from leningrad. today is the twenty seventh of january nineteen forty four our moment of triumph as a. pray the blockade is over we one we have survived i want to cry to cry of joy. momma survive two i miss my dad so much my dear dad we are a life read it is to feel like i think and. 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 am 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. know

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