Word: grusha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veronika lit her improvised lamp-a cup of kerosene with a twisted thread for a wick-and made breakfast: water-thin gruel, black bread and brick tea brewed on the pechka. When it was ready she woke 16-year-old Grusha, fed her and, with an endearing Nichevo, sent her off to work in a war plant. Eight-year-old Fanya tied her ragged valenkis on her feet and went off to school. "Nichevo, Mama, I am not very hungry," she said...
Most important of all, Veronika believed that 1943 would bring victory and peace. The heat would be turned on, the pechka would disappear, the old man would come home, Grusha would go back to school. What else would happen Veronika did not know, nor did she much care. That was enough to think about...