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[00:00:02] Russian Federation and in Estonia, but the
[00:00:05] trend itself, the trend itself,
[00:00:08] a person who is used to it, he is a free
[00:00:11] person, he never liked it,
[00:00:14] I must say that if, let's say, before ninety
[00:00:18] first year, a policeman came up and said: "Open your bag, please,
[00:00:21] I want to see what's in your bag", it
[00:00:25] basically didn't please anyone, and what
[00:00:27] changed, what would. not like, was,
[00:00:31] this is never liked, it was suddenly, at the
[00:00:34] crossing from Narva to Ivangorod, a
[00:00:37] booth was set up, where it was written customs control, when you
[00:00:41] went from Narva to Ivangorod, of course the person
[00:00:44] said, what's it to you, I'm going to Ivangorod, I always walked
[00:00:47] here, returning from Ivangorod, again, again
[00:00:51] customs control, the question is, we could
[00:00:54] probably write the same story, but I just don't know such
[00:00:57] literature, did anyone write
[00:01:00] from the residents of Ivangorod, how life changed
[00:01:03] when the Russian side also set up
[00:01:07] customs control and so on, everything was arranged on this side, I think
[00:01:11] this is the same tragedy, and maybe there are also interesting
[00:01:15] stories, there could be, but we are talking about our side,
[00:01:19] so to speak, the Narva river and its inhabitants,
[00:01:22] who, I repeat, and relatives, connections,
[00:01:25] and work and whatever, and just the feeling of a
[00:01:29] free person, I can do it. Suddenly they tell you: no, you won't do
[00:01:33] this anymore, so what's the deal,
[00:01:36] therefore, the Narva Council of Deputies,
[00:01:40] people's deputies, decided to
[00:01:43] eliminate customs posts
[00:01:47] at the administrative border, this was July 2, ninety-first
[00:01:50] year, and from here a wave, so to speak, or the first wave
[00:01:54] of conflict Narva-Tallinn
[00:01:58] and so on and Daviru,
[00:02:00] so, the Narvans began to discuss,
[00:02:04] they pressed, as it were, an interesting button, this
[00:02:07] button that we, in Estonia, at different levels,
[00:02:11] theoretically discussed, after all, Estonia itself
[00:02:15] dreamed of perhaps becoming a special economic
[00:02:18] zone, in order to earn money from it and
[00:02:22] profitably develop its economy, here the Narvans
[00:02:25] came up with the idea that why couldn't we be here and be
[00:02:29] in a special status? Well, and this special status, of course, to different
[00:02:33] political circles or the state or Tallinn did not
[00:02:36] like it, because accusations immediately appeared
[00:02:40] that the Narvans initially demand a special
[00:02:43] economic status there, and then they can
[00:02:47] switch to the side of the Russian Federation or ask
[00:02:51] for protection from the Russian Federation or whatever. And here
[00:02:54] a conflict arises that Estonia is united and
[00:02:57] also territorially united. Discussions
[00:03:00] are going on at different levels, and,
[00:03:03] let's say, the whole summer, early autumn here in
[00:03:07] Narva, very heated discussions are going on, even
[00:03:11] a special commissioner, as it were, or a special
[00:03:14] representative of the Estonian government is sent to Narvek,
[00:03:17] who must constantly monitor the
[00:03:19] situation, well, and try to resolve all
[00:03:23] conflicts there, and the problem was not only Narva, but
[00:03:26] Kohtla-Järve, so, these very...
[00:04:00] there simply wasn't enough money, I think, there wasn't enough
[00:04:03] food, people talked about hunger,
[00:04:07] I remember that coupons were introduced, of course, they were introduced not in ninety-first
[00:04:10] year, they were, I think, introduced earlier, but in ninety-first
[00:04:14] year they were still in effect, yes, this
[00:04:17] period of coupons, well, the population forgets,
[00:04:21] the younger generation doesn't even know that there was a period of coupons, what it
[00:04:24] meant, I'll just remind you of one date, it's July 1, ninety-first
[00:04:28] year, here... this date we could remember, because
[00:04:32] agricultural products were released at market prices,
[00:04:35] to somehow calm the people, and mothers
[00:04:39] of small children, then they said that milk
[00:04:42] prices should remain as before, everything
[00:04:45] floated away, in such a situation,
[00:04:49] if prices in the market
[00:04:51] grow, there are fewer goods
[00:04:55] in stores, if the price difference is
[00:04:58] very large, then the result was
[00:05:01] that the stores were empty, well, there are a lot of photos,
[00:05:05] photographers liked, especially those who printed in
[00:05:08] the West, that well, absolutely.
[00:05:11] абсолютно.
[00:06:13] and these coupons were printed there,
[00:06:16] signs and were used for a
[00:06:19] short time as an alternative to money in the city
[00:06:22] of Tartu, to simply give people,
[00:06:26] the goods were already there, true, with coupons, but it was impossible to buy anything, because
[00:06:30] for this coupon the products were not given for free, but had to be
[00:06:33] paid for, and for this, so that there was milk, then
[00:06:37] I could buy milk with these, when I had
[00:06:40] a coupon for bread for...
[00:07:12] it was necessary to buy, that is, you had
[00:07:15] a coupon right for the right
[00:07:18] to buy, for example, a kilogram of sugar
[00:07:22] or two pieces of soap, that is, you showed
[00:07:25] the coupon, they gave you soap or sugar
[00:07:28] for the coupon, and you still paid
[00:07:32] money for it, I'm talking about these coupons, yes, I remember
[00:07:35] it well, because it depended on how many people were in
[00:07:39] the family, sometimes this coupon sheet was...
[00:07:42] huge, and the coupon had to be
[00:07:45] cut out, if you wanted a loaf of bread, then you had to cut
[00:07:49] out a small piece from a large sheet, you give it
[00:07:53] to the seller, the seller gives you a loaf of bread, and you
[00:07:56] pay for it, this procedure was very familiar
[00:07:59] to us, then another market appeared, it must be said,
[00:08:03] and this meant that if someone didn't smoke, who smoked,
[00:08:06] he didn't have enough of these coupons, so there was an exchange
[00:08:10] of coupons, for example, young mothers... exchanged
[00:08:13] cigarettes, well, I don't know, for washing powder, for example, because
[00:08:17] children, clothes were dirty, a lot of washing
[00:08:20] was needed, and more washing powder was needed, just in
[00:08:23] case, because people somehow remembered World
[00:08:27] War II crises, they bought a terrible amount
[00:08:31] of soap, so I think that we still have pensioners
[00:08:35] who still have some pieces of soap from
[00:08:38] ninety-first year in their closet, because these were indeed reserves.
[00:08:43] Then alcohol, especially vodka, was currency,
[00:08:46] because if you needed, for example,
[00:08:50] to solder or weld something, to repair something
[00:08:53] in the apartment, then you could have rubles,
[00:08:56] but would you find a master, and if you had half a liter
[00:09:00] of vodka, maybe, of course, you still had to pay extra,
[00:09:03] then you found a master, or in the village
[00:09:06] tractor drivers, first you needed a bottle of vodka, and then the
[00:09:10] tractor driver would even talk to you. So these
[00:09:13] coupons, whoever was a teetotaler or, say,
[00:09:17] minimally used alcohol, then some
[00:09:20] alcohol market or black market for alcohol
[00:09:23] also appeared, well, I can just remember, because there were
[00:09:27] different years and depending on how you went to
[00:09:30] work, if you didn't have pensioners in your family,
[00:09:33] for example, my wife and I both studied and we
[00:09:37] went to work in the morning, when we returned and took
[00:09:41] the children from kindergarten... at the same time we bought,
[00:09:44] for example, bread and wanted to buy a bun, then our
[00:09:48] youngest son for a long time, when he started talking,
[00:09:52] confused bread and bun, the older children laughed a lot, because
[00:09:55] they were so much older, they were before the crisis, they knew exactly
[00:09:59] what a bun was and what bread was, but it just happened that, well, you can't
[00:10:03] say that it lasted a long time, but there were periods when there was simply
[00:10:07] no bun by that time, everything was
[00:10:09] limited.
[00:10:15] In our studio was legal historian Peter Yarvalaid, cadet of the
[00:10:19] military academy 1991
[00:10:22] participated in the program.
[00:10:38] See you, this was a repeat of the program, you
[00:10:40] are listening to
[00:10:47] Radio 4,
[00:11:04] You don't like the smoke and to hell with it, it kills
[00:11:08] words, my head is spinning, the gossip is already spreading
[00:11:11] through the yards, that between us there's a something, what
[00:11:15] can I talk to you about, we lost the thread, though I'm not with you,
[00:11:18] stop and sleep at home, we can't be measured
[00:11:21] by eyes now, why are we pressing the brake?
[00:11:25] not the gas, the eternal question, why and for what, I'm
[00:11:28] slowly losing my mind, you're not yourself, and these nights in
[00:11:32] Crimea, now to whom will I, if I meet, then I'll tell
[00:11:35] him, your squeaky voice, like an electric shock, that
[00:11:39] I'm drunk without wine, it's your fault, now the
[00:11:42] country will know until dark, they will be told about everything on FM
[00:11:46] waves,
[00:11:50] I remember white, wallpaper,
[00:11:53] black. Dishes, there were
[00:11:56] two of us in the Khrushchev, who are
[00:11:59] we and from where, from where
[00:12:03] we draw the curtains, coffee,
[00:12:07] buns are getting cold, explain to us now,
[00:12:10] why am I so crazy about
[00:12:22] her, let's just sit here until morning. Wait,
[00:12:25] wait, but I have to go, and if there's only one way out
[00:12:28] ahead, then why are we sometimes cold, sometimes hot,
[00:12:32] putting things in their places, I'm tired of turning
[00:12:36] back, well, here again the touches melted
[00:12:39] my metal, you are element number five, neither give nor take,
[00:12:43] the game is coming to an end, this time, and you are still
[00:12:46] silent, I say, 15 minutes left
[00:12:50] until morning, don't call, I'll catch it, I'll drop it,
[00:12:54] let's try everything. to sew up, not to stir up, to erase
[00:12:57] mobile numbers, and to leave without asking,
[00:13:01] no strength, let's try to assemble everything
[00:13:04] again,
[00:13:08] white, wallpaper,
[00:13:11] black dishes, there were
[00:13:14] two of us in the Khrushchev, who are
[00:13:17] we and from where,
[00:13:21] we drew the curtains, coffee, buns
[00:13:24] are getting cold, explain. Now to us, the actors,
[00:13:28] why am I so crazy about her,
[00:13:52] I remember white. from where
[00:13:56] from where
[00:14:04] we draw the curtains, coffee
[00:14:08] cups are getting cold, explain to us now,
[00:14:11] actors, why am I so moved by her,
[00:14:15] white wallpaper,
[00:14:17] black dishes,
[00:14:20] in the Khrushchev two of us, who are
[00:14:24] we and where? from where
[00:14:27] we pull the curtains, coffee, pastries
[00:14:31] getting cold, explain to us
[00:14:35] now, actor, why am I so
[00:14:35] moved by her,
[00:14:41] Again, again, fragments in a torn
[00:14:43] string, again, again, fragments in a frosty
[00:14:47] window, I want, so
[00:14:51] much want to raise your love.
[00:14:55] to the sun,
[00:14:58] in your darkness, read me,
[00:15:02] like a mantra of love,
[00:15:06] I am the night's Akman, night, I am a strong one,
[00:15:09] I am dreams,
[00:15:14] your desires
[00:15:16] are close to me, thoughts in your
[00:15:20] runes, and what we have
[00:15:23] now.
[00:15:34] Again, again, shards in a torn string.
[00:15:38] Again, again, shards in a frosty
[00:15:42] window, I want, I
[00:15:44] want so much, your love,
[00:15:47] to pull the sun, again, again,
[00:15:50] shards in a torn string, again,
[00:15:54] again, shards in a frosty
[00:15:56] window, I want. I
[00:16:00] want so much to raise your love
[00:16:04] to the sun, again, again, shards.
[00:16:07] a broken string, again, again, shards,
[00:16:11] frosty,
[00:16:13] I want so much,
[00:16:17] to raise your love to the
[00:16:20] sun, again, again, again,
[00:16:22] again,
[00:16:29] again, again,
[00:16:30] again,
[00:16:37] in your darkness find me, in
[00:16:41] your thoughts don't let go,
[00:16:44] I am Akman, night, night, Siluan, just so
[00:16:48] you know,
[00:16:52] I need your movements,
[00:16:56] moonlight golden,
[00:17:00] in my darkness I will be only
[00:17:04] with you.
[00:17:12] Again, again, fragments in a torn
[00:17:15] string, again, again, fragments in a frosty
[00:17:19] window, I want, so
[00:17:22] much want your love,
[00:17:25] to stretch to the sun, again, again,
[00:17:28] fragments in a broken string, again,
[00:17:32] again, fragments in a frosty
[00:17:34] window, I want. so
[00:17:38] much want to raise your love
[00:17:42] to the sun, again, again, fragments in
[00:17:45] a torn string, again, again,
[00:17:48] fragments in a frosty fog, I
[00:17:52] want so much to raise your
[00:17:56] love to the
[00:17:58] sun.
[00:18:07] I want, I want so much
[00:18:11] to raise my love to the
[00:18:14] sun,
[00:18:23] I want, I want so much to raise your
[00:18:27] love to the
[00:18:30] sun.
[00:18:57] torn from the heavens by the icy
[00:19:01] breath of the wind, a scarlet
[00:19:04] star fell into the darkness.
[00:19:08] Maybe this time it will come
[00:19:11] true, at least for example, and
[00:19:14] my wish will reach
[00:19:17] him,
[00:19:20] bitterly funny,
[00:19:23] to entrust desires to the stars, but
[00:19:27] when the soul cannot bear
[00:19:30] the truth, how much I want
[00:19:33] to believe that it's not too late.
[00:19:37] Maybe everything can still
[00:19:40] be saved, you hear
[00:19:43] me, I'm cold in
[00:19:46] the night, the light
[00:19:49] burns out, in the flame
[00:19:51] of a candle, you hear
[00:19:55] me, I'm so tired
[00:19:57] of waiting, deceive
[00:20:00] me, and come back
[00:20:03] again,
[00:20:18] What is my fault, I don't
[00:20:21] know, I don't understand, my angels
[00:20:25] flew away,
[00:20:28] only this scarlet
[00:20:31] star in the black sky,
[00:20:33] burning out, maybe he wanted
[00:20:37] to help me, you hear
[00:20:41] me, I'm cold in
[00:20:43] the night, the light
[00:20:47] burns out, the flame of the light...
[00:20:51] you hear me, I'm so
[00:20:54] tired of waiting, deceive
[00:20:58] me and come back again!
[00:21:26] you hear me, I'm cold in
[00:21:30] the night, the light
[00:21:33] burns out, in the flame
[00:21:35] of a candle,
[00:21:37] you hear,
[00:21:40] I'm so tired of waiting, deceive
[00:21:44] me, and come back
[00:21:47] again, you write me
[00:21:51] I'm cold in the night, cold in
[00:21:54] the night, the light burns
[00:21:57] out, in the candle,
[00:22:01] you hear me, I'm so tired
[00:22:05] of waiting,
[00:22:09] me and come back again,
[00:22:12] again.
[00:22:27] Radio 4 is always with you, Radio
[00:22:30] 4 is always with you.
[00:26:33] the back row of the planets
[00:26:35] room, how could I
[00:26:38] resist
[00:26:41] the aroma of your
[00:26:44] perfume?
[00:26:48] you and I were inseparable, it
[00:26:51] was love at your
[00:26:54] sight,
[00:26:56] you made me promise to marry you, made
[00:27:00] you promise to be my wife, but
[00:27:04] then you were only eight years
[00:27:07] old, and I had just about tonight,
[00:27:11] just about tonight, I thought that
[00:27:14] life was always good, I thought you
[00:27:17] always would be mine, started with
[00:27:21] kids,
[00:27:24] never thought it would come to
[00:27:27] me, it started with a
[00:27:30] king.
[00:27:33] never thought it would come to this, I
[00:27:36] remember, I remember every little
[00:27:38] thing,
[00:27:42] like fighting in the playground,
[00:27:46] cuz some good-looking
[00:27:47] boy,
[00:27:50] it started to hang
[00:27:52] around,
[00:27:56] that boy hurt me so bad, but I was
[00:28:00] happy, because you cried
[00:28:03] still, I couldn't help but
[00:28:06] notice that new distant look
[00:28:09] in your eyes and
[00:28:12] then when you were
[00:28:15] 16 and I had just turned
[00:28:18] 17, just turned 17,
[00:28:22] I couldn't hold to your love, I
[00:28:25] couldn't hold to my
[00:28:27] dream, it started with
[00:28:29] kids.
[00:28:33] never thought it would come to
[00:28:35] this,
[00:28:37] starting
[00:28:41] with keys, never thought it would come to
[00:28:44] this, you don't remember me
[00:28:47] do you, you don't remember
[00:28:51] me, do you
[00:29:01] guys? walking down the streets
[00:29:05] came the star of my love
[00:29:09] story,
[00:29:11] and my heart began to beat so
[00:29:13] fast, so clear was my
[00:29:17] memory,
[00:29:21] I heard my voice cry out her name, and as
[00:29:25] she looked and looked
[00:29:27] away,
[00:29:30] I felt so hurt, I fell so small, and it
[00:29:33] was all that I could
[00:29:36] say,
[00:29:39] you don't remember me, do
[00:29:40] you?
[00:29:43] You don't remember me, do
[00:29:45] you?
[00:29:47] You don't remember me, do
[00:29:49] you?
[00:29:52] You don't remember me, do
[00:29:53] you? It started with
[00:29:57] a key,
[00:30:00] never thought it would come.
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