Ispansi! Page #5

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Where can we go?

GERMAN VOLGA REPUBLIC. SOVIET UNION.

The army brought the solution.

We arrived at a small village

and an officer gave us instructions

to settle there.

It didn't feel like Russia

we were in the German Volga Republic,

inhabited by Swiss and Germans.

They had been taken there

by Catharine the Great

in the 18th century.

Stalin, afraid of having enemies

behind him,

had just had them deported.

Phew, smells burnt.

They sure left in a hurry.

Who knows what they were cooking.

Someone will have to milk these cows.

They must be ready to burst.

Listen up.

We've been left two houses and a school.

Everything else belongs to the army.

We've also got two cows and two horses.

Where did they take them?

To Siberia.

A few hours ago.

The captain won't

let us go into the fields.

He says they are poisoned.

The army will bring food.

Somebody is hiding here!

Get out of there.

She can't even speak Russian.

We'll have to give her up

to the military authorities.

She says that everyone was taken

but they had done absolutely nothing.

She does speak Russian.

She says she was born here.

She wants nothing to do

with the Germans.

Her family is from Switzerland

and she wants them to come back.

Everything has been taken away

from them.

This is war.

In any case feel sorry for us.

Besides they started it, didn't they?

The Czarina brought them here

a century ago.

They were no longer Swiss or German.

Or whatever.

Surely more Russian

than Ludmilla.

I am Bulgarian.

What?

You are Bulgarian?

And now you tell me?

But you knew that.

It says so in my papers

and my accent...

Don't tell anybody that.

We don't need anymore problems.

Well, what shall we do with her?

Let the authorities decide.

There is no rush to tell anybody.

Besides you are a doctor not a hangman.

Ludmilla

take care of her.

Don't let her be seen in the street.

They will probably come to get her.

Paula, how do you know

how to speak German?

Her clothes are similar to my mother's.

Do you remember your mother's clothes?

You were very little.

A month before my mother

sent me to Russia

they executed my father.

I don't remember him.

Leave those things alone.

They're not yours.

Go with everybody else.

You heard Paula.

Leave!

I am glad you are better.

We need all the help we can get.

You never work

and then put on such airs!

These girls will sleep in this room!

And theyll use whatever they need.

Understand?

We can't wait any longer.

We have to pick all the food

out of the ground, potatoes, beets...

They can't poison them

if they are underground.

If we don't die poisoned

we'll die of hunger.

There is no other way. When winter comes

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