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Preserve my sad story... Lena Mukhina's Blockade Diary

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Preserve my sad story... Lena Mukhina's Blockade Diary
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Lena Mukhina, a Leningrad schoolgirl, began keeping a diary in May 1941, not realizing that very soon the entries in this small notebook would turn from a chronicle of a youthful crush into a chronicle of one of the worst catastrophes in human history and become part of a dramatic collective text called "blockade diaries. What can be contrasted with the agony of starvation in conditions when the generally accepted norms of morality are collapsing? What can save from spiritual degradation in conditions when the struggle for survival deprives one of one's "human face" and hunger and fear of death turn one into an animal? One of the means of salvation turned out to be the ordering of letters. An attempt to comprehend through words what is happening, to understand oneself. And also: intuitive knowledge that it is necessary to preserve one's history, one's experience for others. Today, when more and more blockade diaries are decoded and published, we realize how great is the lasting value of these documentary evidence of a tragic era. Like Anne Frank's diary, Lena Mukhina's diary can rightfully be ranked among the most dramatic and most poignant works of the 20th century.
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