Her grandfather
was taken off
in 1936. Some
Stalin purge.
A great grandfather
went the same year
and the same purge.
It was such that her
parents feared that
they would disappear
and she to be put in
an orphanage. But no
one came for them
although each day
feared some one would.
Her great grandmother
whose husband died
in 1934 lived until 1962
and she had met her
a few times but no one
spoke of her husband.
She herself had known
school friends who were
there one day then gone.
No one asked where.
No one dare ask. Only
after Stalin's death was
it safe to remove his
picture from the wall
at home and school.
She only vaguely
remembered it at all.
Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 4:29 AM UTC
Her grandfather
was taken off
in 1936. Some
Stalin purge.
A great grandfather
went the same year
and the same purge.
It was such that her
parents feared that
they would disappear
and she to be put in
an orphanage. But no
one came for them
although each day
feared some one would.
Her great grandmother
whose husband died
in 1934 lived until 1962
and she had met her
a few times but no one
spoke of her husband.
She herself had known
school friends who were
there one day then gone.
No one asked where.
No one dare ask. Only
after Stalin's death was
it safe to remove his
picture from the wall
at home and school.
She only vaguely
remembered it at all.
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