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In their big corner apartment at the end of Lenina Prospekt, Valentina Brukhanov had waited in vain all day for news of her husband, whom she had last seen leaving silently before dawn. It was long after midnight when the station director returned home, bringing a permit that would allow their pregnant daughter and son-in-law to take the family car, slip through the militsia cordon, and escape the city. He stopped for only a few minutes. He said he had to get back to the plant. “You know the captain is always the last one off the ship. From now on,” he told Valentina, “you’ll be responsible ...more
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