How were you taken prisoner?’ The interrogator asked my father. ‘The Finns pulled me out of a lake.’ ‘You traitor! You were saving your own skin instead of the Motherland.’ My father also considered himself guilty. That’s how they’d been trained.

How were you taken prisoner?’ The interrogator asked my father. ‘The Finns pulled me out of a lake.’ ‘You traitor! You were saving your own skin instead of the Motherland.’ My father also considered himself guilty. That’s how they’d been trained.

– Svetlana Alexievich –

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