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…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 (doomed) ПОLUБЛИ..“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