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The stories of Soviet children during WWII. Really just want to stare at the wall for a few hours now.
What gets you isn't just the stories themselves, which range from bittersweet to hair-whiteningly horriffic, but that basically the only thing she tells us about their current lives is their profession. All these traumatized children grew - had to grow - up into functioning adults, "ordinary" members of society, carrying all this with them for decades, burying it, normalizing it.
Now I've told you. (Pause) Is that all? Is that all that's left of something that terrible? A few dozen words...?
The stories of Soviet children during WWII. Really just want to stare at the wall for a few hours now.
What gets you isn't just the stories themselves, which range from bittersweet to hair-whiteningly horriffic, but that basically the only thing she tells us about their current lives is their profession. All these traumatized children grew - had to grow - up into functioning adults, "ordinary" members of society, carrying all this with them for decades, burying it, normalizing it.
Now I've told you. (Pause) Is that all? Is that all that's left of something that terrible? A few dozen words...?
