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is that this doesn't just using methods and there were no passenger trains so we walked to let a grat. we couldn't recognize it though will take was crisscrossed over all the windows all the shop windows were blocked with sandbags stick down but they left some of the statues like the bronze horseman that is even that was also covered with sandbags. so we could recognize our own city in a day the whole city was blocked 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 and i will see him.

he will be back and we will be happy. you know where you're supposed to love and the first bombs hit house number one hundred nine on the ski prospect because the and my dad's factory thought that the germans wanted to bomb everything on the west coast you were way station at the train tracks leading to moscow. they were dropping bombs everywhere there were so many casualties of war when i heard about it i rushed to my dad's factory and met my geography teacher the head of the get us one but he knew my dad well vision they had served in the imperial army together he told me recently your father is alive don't worry about him it's good for you. told me there was no place to escape to so he just had to carry all those bombay exams but lost their legs or arms or just more of them.

he's somewhere on the front now 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. ribbon when there was a fishmonger next to us on the road when she died street for word while we are free to take up several kinds of study trying to fare who were aboard the shoe pyramids or virtually every hour crabber on display what are the would if the shops were always full of goods will only do for the moment one day mom went and we saw that 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 one hundred 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 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 oil spill they used it to feed it to cattle to run the

it was very difficult to chew but mom tried to make it edible. jell in she boiled it as much as she could tell us but even adding charcoal. it was still tred full to eat but there was nothing else so that's what we had. on walking along rubenstein street. we all have russian carts and we were given these bottles of syrup they called it was sort of like sweetened water with real cool when you well someone dropped the bottle you threw up out of all food no that smashed him also to the ground two three and she will swear this happened i saw it with my own eyes lordy 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.

by media in november they bombed the but die of ski warehouses the fire lasted for a few days it was awful the fire was huge the whole of leningrad could see it as if it was the main storage place for all the food in the city. they bombed it so much that the entire storage facility was leveled to the ground zero here and 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 the many people ate that our 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 i would read to the wounded soldiers. used to. there's a bill once i went to one ward and said what should i read which they said anything

but nothing about war yet you still have but so i decided to read pushkin have gideon a going to them at that was a good he writes about a duel and that one of the soldiers said you promised to read nothing about war but 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 same. here in my sketch pad which. we had to cover the sphinx as with wooden boards. to a sketch about that but then we had 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 bull 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 a 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 the gullible you. 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. to china for example they're growing exactly the way the west who they're creating more credit in the system they creating more debt in the system and the rich are getting richer and the poor poor eight hundred million people live less than fifteen dollars a day in china and that doesn't seem to be changing it's the number one problem the chinese government has right now you know it seems to me that what the rich have done is that you know they made themselves so comfortable but in the process of

destroying the entire process of where they got their wealth from in the first place the government student to look at people's welfare to worry about these sort of into generational dynasties that. i think if you're a billionaire as i say this is a real danger to society that these people were going to be sort of like sitting there at the top of the. majority want to do. right on the scene. first street. and i think the true. on our reporters with their. instrument. to be in the. wealthy british style it's time to.

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we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on will we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate real discussion critical issues facing america five for you ready to join the movement then walk a bit like. my mom was very ill. that one day your 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 but nobody survived more than. a few people were too exhausted to even to remove the rubble and it was so cold. the temperature was

still so to degrees below zero. and it didn't get any better but if you read 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 no water would freeze instantly. we took the sleds over to but couldn't prospect. we put little buckets on to the slats there was a hole in the ice close to the riverbank. although sometimes we went there to get water. it was easy to lose the buckets when we climbed back up the embankment but i gather the water would splash over the rim of the buckets or. 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 so 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. cellists 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 the three apartments you sit with all 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 your mobile 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 that's. but 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. cause they let me see her in hospital yeah i went expecting to see her round puffy face which they saw you but i just saw a skinny woman saying she the my mom was my dear mom that she looked so thin

like them. i'm so happy i have recovered i've been back on my feet for two days when i saw myself and then there i was scared i saw 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 this siege of leningrad has been broken by the heroic red army soldiers have built a 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 folk in the day the siege finally ended when we heard the noise from our soldiers guns we were so happy . the siege took millions of lives. even now we know exactly how many. was. when the. ok it was over people started sending in food from bush all over the country. i'm feeling better now i go to the alexander nevsky ministry to pick grass my 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 on the chin i was really scared by the air raid sirens isn't it they were lots of them but each. any aircraft guns fired a planes were flying 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 does exist 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. look why i spent most of the seats on the rooftops. the one like nobody told us to do that. but they were always dropping farmable 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 bombings 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 here the genius cut short by a bomb. did it warrant the germans were shelling the city that way yes yes they knew the location of every tram stop i deal with so we had to move them every single day and yesterday well they don't they left that will do they were firing at the tram stops in the field people who are going to work when the attack started there was no way to escape that is different is that the shelling was quite far from the buildings around gusty need to board an assassin. but that the view there

was no cover to hide under the wall so there were plenty of casualties. they were firing at maternity homesick boys just. trying to target crowded places. they did that it were quite a long time. from leningrad today is the twenty seventh of january nineteen forty four our moment of triumph has already. prayed the blockade is over we won we have survived i want to cry to cry with joy. mama survive to i miss my dad so much my dear dad we are alive how great 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

has 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 sorry to have. you

know my guitar is here i can get it i see anybody in please might even help me with my guitar. thank you you're welcome. oh sorry well you know how to treat it better than i do sorry i can play.

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