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When perestroika [20] began I was terrified at how they could ruin such great country. I recalled how we were welcomed in Siberia during the war and now they were in a different country. We were a Ukrainian theater and nobody closed it. To crown it all, I had my saving for my old age, but they were lost and I am a sick miserable old woman. My acquaintances asked me why I didn’t ask Hesed for help, but I didn’t want to, I was ashamed to ask them. I don’t remember the details, but somehow they got me on their lists.
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Anna Gliena