Book: Measure of being. Page 4



Coming out from behind the table, the old man walked up to the typesetting canvas with the face of Christ and tenderly stroked the halo with calloused fingers. - Wars end, but beauty is eternal. I’ll tell you more: what is created in difficult times always carries great depth.
Quote Explanation: Plafonds made in besieged Leningrad now decorate the Moscow metro station Novokuznetskaya.
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He rushed into the room, with hasty movements he broke a cracker, threw it into a mug of boiling water, and stirred it. Mother,
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We had to move almost at random, guided by the glowing circles on the coats of passers-by. Wooden brooches coated with phosphorus were in great demand.
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What, do you think that since I was a leader under the Soviet regime, that means I don’t believe in God? Maybe I don’t believe, but in difficult times you can’t live without God.
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I have been on a diet all my life and, one wonders, why? To die of hunger? The irony of fate, as our choreographer liked to say.
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The captured corporal of the 1st battery of the 768th artillery division, Willi Becker, said at the Nuremberg trials: ...
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In October, Leningrad windows were overgrown with tin chimneys. There was no heating and potbelly stoves were made from whatever materials were available. It was considered great luck to get an iron barrel or a huge milk can.
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MPVO - Local air defense. During the years of the siege, its core was girls. MPVO fighters carried out rescue operations in hotbeds of destruction, cleared rubble, controlled blackouts, extinguished incendiary bombs, cleared unexploded ordnance, rescued children left without parents, provided assistance to the victims and bury the dead and dead.
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Finding yourself among enemies - what could be worse? Even though there is hunger in Leningrad, bombs are falling from the sky and guns are firing, but there are relatives and Soviet people nearby. Their.
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Lera was so afraid of injections and blood that after school she immediately entered medical school to prove the popular wisdom: you can knock out a wedge with a wedge.
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No matter what power there is, disease is an ineradicable thing. A good doctor is expensive.
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It's strange that people, out of habit, continue to say kind
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In one week, Leningrad schoolchildren collected more than a million bottles. The bottles were filled with a flammable mixture and sent to the front.
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In Hitler's Directive No. 1601 The Future
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- The metronome is knocking. This is so that the population knows that the radio is working. You can’t have an announcer on duty 24/7; they also need to sleep. In Leningrad it is forbidden to turn off the radio in order to notify people in time about the air raid warning. Slowly knocking means all clear, but fast knocking means the residents should run to the bomb shelter.
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