One time he said to me, “Will you come with me?” And I said, “Yes,” without even asking him where we were going. That’s how we got recruited to go to Siberia. To build communism! [She is silent.] And today…ah…well…Turns out it was all in vain…All of our suffering was in vain…It’s terrible to admit it and even worse to live with it. All of our grueling labor! We built so much. Everything with our own hands. The times we lived through were so hard!
