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LeningradOlga Grechina, scratching around for a respectable wardrobe for her new start at university, acquired new boots by taking the blades off a pair of skates. Marina Yerukhmanova, sacked from the Yevropa, adopted a stray St Bernard БЂ” the same breed her grandparents had owned БЂ” which she fed Eskimo ice creams and hoisted on to pavement weighing machines. (It had been rescued, she liked to think, by victorious tankisti from some abandoned German Schloss.) Nikolai Ribkovsky, the apparatchik who dined off ham and turkey at a Party rest-house in the middle of the mass death, looked forward to the day when he could afford to take a girl to the Mariinsky and treat her to coffee and cake in the interval. Botanists at the Botanical Gardens drew up a wish list of sunny countries to which they wanted to launch new plant-collecting expeditions БЂ” India, Madagascar, Java, Australia and Ceylon.16 Second, people realised that Communism was here to stay. Before the war, it had been possible to regard the regime as something temporary ...» |
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