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Vasili Dzemyanovich: Free time (after the War)
Did you organize dancing?
Yes, we had dancing, but what can I say, only on holidays.
Only on holidays?
On Sundays.
Was every Sunday a holiday or not?
Every one. Every Sunday. It was a day off. …
Categories: Holidays and traditions, Vasili Dzemyanovich
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Vasili Dzemyanovich: Drinks (after the War)
People started to drink only under Khruschev? Did they drink alcohol before?
Yes, of course. Before that only «NKVD» (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) and «militsiya& …
Categories: Holidays and traditions, Vasili Dzemyanovich
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Antоnina Radzetskaya: About school
What city did you go to school in?
Well, over there, in Smolensk region, in Krasnaznamya.
How many forms did you complete in school?
Four. I completed four forms. Later on we moved away because we …
Categories: School, Antonina Radzetskaya
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Antanina Radzetskaya: About evacuation from Smolensk
And later on they asked us to leave, when the father was arrested and put into Vrotslav prison of Smolensk oblast, so they asked us to move away from here. They could arrest us and kill. Gukau Yuri …
Categories: Mode of life, Antonina Radzetskaya
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Antonina Radzetskaya: About father’s arrest
Was your father off to the front during the war?
He was linked with the partisans. When he came home to take some food, to his sister’s house near the forest, their neighbors squeal on him. He …
Categories: Parents, Mode of life, Antonina Radzetskaya
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Vladzimir Prashleutos: Soltyses, partisans, White Poles
Please tell me was there any German permanent post or police post here?
They told there were both a Gestapo and … a permanent post… But there were just few persons, about fifteen or …
Categories: Mode of life, Vladzimir Prashleutos
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Vladzimir Prashleutos: Parents
My father was a Lithuanian, my mother was a local. Father came here in 1934. Mother lived permanently here. My mother could speak the Jewish language.
Where did she learn it?
When she was twelve …
Categories: Parents, Vladzimir Prashleutos
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Vladzimir Prashleutos: Traditions after the War
Each nation has its own traditions. I wasn’t told anything about traditions. And there was a cemetery over there – you see – in the March 8 Street, there is a waste land there now. …
Categories: Holidays and traditions, Vladzimir Prashleutos
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Ideya Belskaya: Family relations
I was thirteen when the war began. Who we were at this age… But now when someone is thirteen he is a complete child, a spoiled brat. A doll. Well. But at that time we already… for …
Categories: Family, Ideya Belskaya
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Ideya Belskaya: About father
My father was a commandant of the Red Army. And who was he when he started his adult life? He was a swineherd. He worked for a land lord in village Ligaty near Kobrin, Brest Oblast. You see. Father …
Categories: Parents, Ideya Belskaya
