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... Russia in its sol- diers , its peasants , its villages with their skimpy resources and their abundant grief . For the first time I was seeing many Russian towns and factory settlements , and their general features all blended in my ...
... Russia in its sol- diers , its peasants , its villages with their skimpy resources and their abundant grief . For the first time I was seeing many Russian towns and factory settlements , and their general features all blended in my ...
Page 499
... Russia . Our Russia . We'll slap down all the others . " I remembered what the Red Guards had just shouted : " But we are Russia ! " and suddenly I understood with extraordinary clarity and freshness what is meant by " the masses of the ...
... Russia . Our Russia . We'll slap down all the others . " I remembered what the Red Guards had just shouted : " But we are Russia ! " and suddenly I understood with extraordinary clarity and freshness what is meant by " the masses of the ...
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... Russia and would never be one , that all was lost , and that there was nothing more to live for . It was as if the singer guessed my thoughts for he said : " Most gracious God , what has happened to Russia ? It's some kind of bad dream ...
... Russia and would never be one , that all was lost , and that there was nothing more to live for . It was as if the singer guessed my thoughts for he said : " Most gracious God , what has happened to Russia ? It's some kind of bad dream ...
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The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich ΙΟ | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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