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Now I'll try to talk about our life. I live in Uzbekistan, one of the Soviet republics. 90% of the population are Uzbeks, and 10% are people of other nationalities. All leading posts all over the plants and enterprises and especially party posts are occupied by Uzbeks. They all know two languages -- Russian and Uzbek -- so we haven't [had] any problems [communicating]. We haven't seen any discords before, but now, when the situation in the country has become worse, the relations between people of different nationalities became very complicated. You probably read in your papers that our republics want to leave the Union, but what will happen to us. Well we live in the alien republic. All fear our relations will turn into the civil war, as it is happening in other republics. People get angry with all that life. All foods have disappeared from the shops. To buy any consumer goods, there is a turn on the plants, which continues for years. [Maybe, you have to be on a list?] For all [of] 1990, I've bought only one mixer. The food is given only by rate [ration?], and all the Soviet people live in this way. | Now I'll try to talk about our life. I live in Uzbekistan, one of the Soviet republics. 90% of the population are Uzbeks, and 10% are people of other nationalities. All leading posts all over the plants and enterprises and especially party posts are occupied by Uzbeks. They all know two languages -- Russian and Uzbek -- so we haven't [had] any problems [communicating]. We haven't seen any discords before, but now, when the situation in the country has become worse, the relations between people of different nationalities became very complicated. You probably read in your papers that our republics want to leave the Union, but what will happen to us. Well we live in the alien republic. All fear our relations will turn into the civil war, as it is happening in other republics. People get angry with all that life. All foods have disappeared from the shops. To buy any consumer goods, there is a turn on the plants, which continues for years. [Maybe, you have to be on a list?] For all [of] 1990, I've bought only one mixer. The food is given only by rate [ration?], and all the Soviet people live in this way. | ||
We are very lucky [that] war in the Persian Gulf [is] finished. We would like peace in all the world, especially Israel. | We are very lucky [that] war in the Persian Gulf [is] finished. We would like peace in all the world, especially Israel. | ||
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Sometime in 1990, I began a correspondence with Maria's daughter, Unona. I don't remember how it started, but by March, 1991, we were both hoping and planning for her to visit us, possibly that June for Noah's bar mitzvah. Her correspondence with me includes a personal view into her family's current situation in Tashkent and, I think, is worth quoting at some length. Here is her letter to me, dated March 10, 1991:
Dear Estelle,
I received your two letters dates February 9 and November 11... I shall try to answer all questions.
In the first place, I received permission to visit you and foreign passport. I took down on turn for airplane tickets. It is the most problem. I shall go to the cash-desk and at once I shall write letter for you. I shall try to take tickets for roubles to America and from America (New York). I would like to go in June for Noah's bar mitzvah...There is no such [thing as a]bar mitzvah ceremony in our country. We usually mark all birthdays home with my friends together.
We are lucky. [Daughter-in-law]Isabelle [had a baby] boy February 24 and I became a grandmother. He is named Dan...
Now I'll try to talk about our life. I live in Uzbekistan, one of the Soviet republics. 90% of the population are Uzbeks, and 10% are people of other nationalities. All leading posts all over the plants and enterprises and especially party posts are occupied by Uzbeks. They all know two languages -- Russian and Uzbek -- so we haven't [had] any problems [communicating]. We haven't seen any discords before, but now, when the situation in the country has become worse, the relations between people of different nationalities became very complicated. You probably read in your papers that our republics want to leave the Union, but what will happen to us. Well we live in the alien republic. All fear our relations will turn into the civil war, as it is happening in other republics. People get angry with all that life. All foods have disappeared from the shops. To buy any consumer goods, there is a turn on the plants, which continues for years. [Maybe, you have to be on a list?] For all [of] 1990, I've bought only one mixer. The food is given only by rate [ration?], and all the Soviet people live in this way.
We are very lucky [that] war in the Persian Gulf [is] finished. We would like peace in all the world, especially Israel.
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