Side note: my aunt and my grandmother were heavily, heavily involved in getting the “hey sorry bout that stuff back then and all the nasty shit that everybody else except us did” “apology”.
My grandmother’s father was carried away in the middle of the night and murdered by the KGB for the crime of keeping a handful of grain to feed his children. (I remember sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s our family received formal admission from Russia and documentation stating the arrest and murder… It’s what was already known to our family).
My grandmother and my aunt spent 18 months fleeing through the forests and eating barks and mushrooms and carcases and literally animal feces.
She would still forage when she came to canada, but she would not allow the grandchildren to come, because she could not bear the idea that her descendants would have to do what she had to.
Thank you my friend.
Side note: my aunt and my grandmother were heavily, heavily involved in getting the “hey sorry bout that stuff back then and all the nasty shit that everybody else except us did” “apology”.
My grandmother’s father was carried away in the middle of the night and murdered by the KGB for the crime of keeping a handful of grain to feed his children. (I remember sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s our family received formal admission from Russia and documentation stating the arrest and murder… It’s what was already known to our family).
My grandmother and my aunt spent 18 months fleeing through the forests and eating barks and mushrooms and carcases and literally animal feces.
She would still forage when she came to canada, but she would not allow the grandchildren to come, because she could not bear the idea that her descendants would have to do what she had to.