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I can tell you that our family moved there when there were no camps.
We came there from a different region.
So, when I went to
school at that time
those camps were completely gone.
It was an ordinary school,
though the population remained
quite varied. Those who
were decendants of the people
who went through those camps were still there.
It was a very international
environment in our village.
There were many educated people
especilally among geologists.
The people with high university degrees, there were many of that kind.
So that's why the population
was, how do say,
there were many educated people and there
were people who had
of some foreign origin. Well,
for example when I was at elementary school
it was 1962 and around,
it was my first year at school,
those times in our schools, particularly in
my group, there were
children who were Germans,
Finns. There was a
girl who was Bulgarian.
In other school groups there were Checks.
They were half Checks and
half Yakuts.
For example a family name woould be Oks.
In a different parallel group
there was a girld whose surname was Obukhovich, she was Polish.
There were surnames like
Klimavichute, Nikolauskaite.
Those were the Baltic names.
All of them studied with us.
We all spoke Russian.
We all were friends and at that time we
didn't speak about [capms]. We never asked
each other of anything like that and even
we didn't have a slightest idea in our heads
because the adults didn't talke about it either.
It was prohibited to talk about such things.
We grew up in a Soviet environment
with all that pioneering
and camping,
we studied together, we played together...
And we didn't have any idea and we
didn't ask each other
about our parents and their
lives, etc.
So, we were friends
In my class there were many
Ukranians, Belorussians. There was a
boy as I told you, he was half German and
half Finnish.
But nobody spoke about
their parents' past history, that's why
we lived from day to day.
All about studying, playing and sports.
We were all in for sports
of different kind and camping, etc.
That was our life then.
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