The day the world collapsed

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Abstract:

And so disaster came to the people of the Genghiz Hills in the summer of 1953 it came in a single hour. The children, tending the goats and sheep behind the village, all heard the terrible cries, screams and women weeping. Leaving the sheep and goats on the steppe, jostling each other as they ran, their bare feet flashing, they rushed to the village. What was taking place there was unimaginable – people were embracing each other, saying farewell, making vows and shouting, weeping. Commotion, confusion, chaos – and we young boys were standing with our mouths open. unaware of the misfortune which had befallen the inhabitants of our quiet and cosy village. Perhaps, war had broken out? It dawned upon some of us that it might be a war against the Americans or some other imperialists and we greedily began to examine the enormous military vehicles and the soldiers rushing everywhere, all of whom seemed to have appeared from under the ground…

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