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The small town resounded with whistling and shouting. The smell of stewing, the smell of frying, the smell of boiling.
Mr. Dykhes had sold all his defective soap to the army.
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Contributor:
Boris Yampolski
Places:
USSR (Russia)
Date:
1940
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Nuska Shkolnik, who had come on a four-day leave, cried those four straight. He’d been a whiner since childhood, and Lyovka never did manage to knock that vice out of him. All anyone had to do was…
Contributor:
Inna Lesovaya
Places:
Kyiv, Ukraine
Date:
2005
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The heder was in the basement. It was a dark, damp room with a low ceiling. There were two windows on the ground level. In the middle of the room, there was a long wooden table covered with books, two…
Contributor:
Doiv Ber Levin
Places:
Petrograd, USSR (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1932
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. . . An empty street. An unfamiliar shack. A tightly shut gate. And hanging over the gate, over the dead street, over us all—a Cossack cap with a raspberry-colored band. A trail of smoke from an…
Contributor:
Mark Egart
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1933–1934