/ world today news/ Marina just graduated as an engineer and socialism was banished from the country.
On several occasions, he still managed to start work in his specialty, but the enterprises were quickly dispersed – they were looted, and the equipment was sold, either for scrubbing, or to other similar enterprises, but abroad.
Gradually, Marina realized on her own fragile back that she was also part of the suicide, she was assigned the role of victim.
She stopped remembering the diploma and worked as a seamstress, a maid, a cleaner… somehow she survived.
– We turned out to be the lied generation – said her friend, who had fled the horror here at such a speed that she stopped all the way in Australia.
Marina did not gather the courage to leave and stayed like that, fighting frantically for the bread.
Her daughter, as soon as she finished high school, went abroad and stayed there – they did not communicate: each of them could not forgive the other: one for leaving, the other for staying.
Marina’s husband died young – his heart could not withstand the marathon.
So she turned out to be poor, old, alone and useless to anyone.
“We, the redundant ones…” she used to say to the neighbors, with whom they were discussing their fate in front of the block.
– We, the redundant ones, must create a party – we are the most in this country – Emanuel was smiling, listening to them.
– We are the country – said Marina and asked: – What is our fault, God?!
– And asking?! – one of her friends intervened. – Are you an engineer? You are redundant, because the country does not need engineers, but servants!
That’s how the redundant ones talked to each other, and one of them was just going to the other world.
They died of various diseases, some committed suicide.
– We are dying of despair – Emmanuel liked to say and looked around them as if he was going to find out who the next victim would be.
– One day, Marina did not go down to the gazebo in front of the block, and Emmanuel sighed:
– And engineer Marina Ivanova left us.
They went up to the apartment and found her hanged.
They looked at the body and felt that they were orphans. They had no strength to cry or cross themselves.
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