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Людмила Ансельм
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MOTHER: And if they find out or see that you do believe in God you know they will throw you out of “Komsomol”. They will make your life even harder… miserable for as long as you live… you will not be able to go to the university… no matter how many “A’s” you get… you will only be able to work as Lucy’s mother works…
KATYA: I don’t care… I’m not afraid of them, because God will stand by me.
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KATYA: Mama, tell me about him…
MOTHER: Later…
KATYA: Why later? Now!
MOTHER: I’ve told you before. I was born in a little town named, Kaluga… My father was a teacher… There…
KATYA: It’s a lie! He was not a teacher! He was a priest!
MOTHER: He was a teacher!
KATYA: Grandmother told me the truth! You have never told me the truth! It is you, who taught me to lie!
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You are talking to me! Your mother!
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MOTHER: Never say “I hate you!” again to anyone.
Words… all words… just words… are the most dangerous thing in our life… I’m your mother! You must show me respect even if you think I’m only telling you half truths.
You don’t know how my life was… What I have endured…
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All right… I’ll tell you some truth… May be you’ll understand how my life was… All my life I have been afraid that somebody would find out that I’m the daughter of a priest!
KATYA: Mama, what happened to Grandfather?
MOTHER: I was just about your age… It was dinner time… There was a knock on the door… Papa opened it. There were three big men. The leader said they had to talk to my father.…
KATYA: Who were they?
MOTHER: NKVD, KGB… Not important… They said that he would be back soon… He went away with them without even a jacket… I ran after him and gave him his jacket and piece of bread… He took the bread from my hands and… there in the middle of the street… he made the sign of the cross on me… Then turned to the men… I never saw him after that…
KATYA: Why did they take him?
MOTHER: He was a priest… Almost all priests were arrested not just my father…
KATYA: Mama, why were priests arrested?
MOTHER: Because Lenin said: “Religion is opium for the people”. It means that the priests deceived the people and they had to be punished… We found out later that all arrested priests were shot…
KATYA: Your father was shot!
MOTHER: No one ever knew anything exact…
KATYA Did you try to find out about him?
MOTHER: No… Not wise… We quickly moved away to Moscow…
KATYA: Why have you never told me?
MOTHER: I was afraid… You would tell somebody about my father…
If the KGB had ever found out that I was the daughter of a Priest, I would never have been able to go to the university, never would have been able to be a doctor, and never would have been able to support you and Grandmother… I’ve always been afraid for myself. Now I’m afraid for you… Can I trust you?
