to pay for a death certificate and wouldn’t take Grandma down to the morgue. “What do you expect? It’s ‘the market economy’!” We didn’t have any money at home…My mother had just been laid off from her job, she’d been looking for work for two months already, but no matter where she went, there was already a long line of applicants. Mama had graduated with honors from a technology institute. But there was no question of her getting a job in her field. People with university diplomas were working behind counters, as dishwashers.
