Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After my daughter-in-law's departure, the car was returned to us, but only its remains -- everything that could be unscrewed had been taken, and the tires were replaced by bald ones. Half the parts had been removed from under the hood and everything taken out of the interior -- even the ashtrays. It took us nearly five months to get the car back into shape...
...years that followed, a strange situation developed around this inanimate object. Whenever the authorities did not like something, it was our car that suffered. Two tires would be punctured or a window smashed or smeared with a durable glue. If something like that happened to our car, we knew that we had done something bad by their standards: perhaps we had managed to talk to someone on the street or at the market, or had gone to the wrong place...
There are many sins and only one car, so it suffers, poor thing...
...early years in Gorky, we often gave lifts to strangers; then we were forbidden to do that. The authorities enforced their ban by puncturing our tires and that sort of thing. Seeing that we did not understand fully, they began hauling passengers forcibly out of the car. Once, when Andrei was driving, he took in two women -- one was very elderly and could barely shuffle. As soon as he started the engine, our police escort ran over and stopped our car with shouts and curses, and then he pulled the two women out of the car. The old woman...
...summer of 1985, I saw a man standing by the side of the road with a screaming child of four or five. The boy had a broken leg. I started to help them in. My guards ran over and began pulling the man from the car. I rushed * at one of the KGB guards, and shouted for him to get in the car and drive. I think I frightened him. He got in, and we drove the boy to the first-aid station near our house. Later, the KGB man said to me, "You are not allowed to stop...