#Anyway they fled to Saint-Petersburg where they had family
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Found out from a random conversation with my grandma that my great-grandmother was actually Ukranian, and that her family had to flee Odessa during Holodomor. My grandma even still has her notebooks in Ukrainian.
It's the same grandma that worries about "our poor boys", i.e. Russian soldiers (at least the drafted ones). W i l d.
#I mean I knew they were from Odessa but the rest just never came up for some reason#Anyway they fled to Saint-Petersburg where they had family#And then Kirov was killed and the Great Purge started and they fled even further North#From the warm sea of Odessa to the swamps of SPb to the frozen forests near Murmansk. 3000 kms.#From a rich and noble life to the timber harvesters' cook#Damn I wonder what that was like#Posts by me#history
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i had the most horrible and exhausting dream, in this case it’s a burden that i remember too much.
it started with a family/friends dinner, we were celebrating something in a restaurant that was located on the top floor of a very tall building. i needed to go to the bathroom, so i went out, but i lost myself and couldn’t find the way back, and i couldn’t call because i left my phone in the restaurant. the building was enormous and i think it was like the whole city in one tower, there was a shopping center, a park, private apartments, a medical facility, and i was walking and opening doors, but just couldn’t find the right one. i was meeting people, and i noticed that they were all talking about one thing - what they will do when “it” happens, hide or surrender, when i finally asked, they told me that today at exact 17:30 someone will start exterminating all citizens of Saint-Petersburg. i didn’t believe first, but then i started noticing, that here or there were standing people in uniforms and with rifles. when the clock was at 17:30, i was in a park, and i heard shootings and people running. i started also running and was trying to find a place to hide, but it wasn’t really possible, because those killers weren’t humans, they could open portals and teleport, by this way they would achieve to kill all petersburgers, even those who aren’t in the city right now. i even went through two portals - one led me to the ocean, where my friend was sitting and there were penguins all around, we could pet them, but then killers came, and i fled; and the other portal was to an african village, and i saw how they were deciding if they should kill also children who weren’t born in Saint-Petersburg, but their parents were, they decided to kill, with a machete. when i was finally caught, i even took a rifle from the ground and pointed at one of those creatures, but they said that i shouldn’t make it worse, because now i have a chance. it turned out that my boyfriend knew how to cure somnambulism of their leader, but he wouldn’t do that if they will kill me. it ended when i was sitting with him, looking at my phone, where were missed calls from my dead relatives and friends, and i felt like i didn’t deserve to live after everything i saw, he would live anyway, because he is a foreigner, but why me? i think i decided to kill myself, but i don’t really know.
when i woke up i felt the urge to warn everyone i know, that something bad will happen. but i should give my brain some credit, though it was one of the worst things i ever saw, the idea and pictures were quite interesting.
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