[…
I then caught up with] a bearded peasant who was walking along . His feet were covered with
sacking. We started talking. He spoke in Ukrainian Russian. I gave him a lump of
bread and
of cheese.
“You could not buy that anywhere for 20 rubles. There just is no food.”
We walked along and talked; “Before the war this was all gold. We had horses and cows and pigs and chickens. Now we are ruined. We are (the living dead) ПОГИБЛИ. You see that field. It was all gold, but now look at the weeds. The weeds were peeping up over the snow.
“Before the war we could have boots and meat and butter. We were the richest…
“You could not buy that anywhere for 20 rubles. There just is no food.”
We walked along and talked; “Before the war this was all gold. We had horses and cows and pigs and chickens. Now we are ruined. We are (the living dead) ПОГИБЛИ. You see that field. It was all gold, but now look at the weeds. The weeds were peeping up over the snow.
“Before the war we could have boots and meat and butter. We were the richest…