Tales of a Soviet Surgeon. A memorial episode.
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Greetings, Comrades. It’s been about two years since my grandmother died. She was an amazing – rough, a bit xenophobic, but an amazing nonetheless, person who taught me that I should be more stoic, be a warrior and do my best. This is her story. A story on how a devout Lutheran managed to do crazy things in the USSR – a collection of anecdotes from her life that I wrote down when she was alive, and sort of a living memory of one of my closest people ever. I hope you’ll be happy that I share them with you. Warning: graphic content. Not in the rude way but still.
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| 1:05.5 | But today is the second anniversary since the death of my grandmother, from my father's side. |
| 1:11.2 | So I will just, you know, be retelling the stories what she told me, and my other grandma, |
| 1:18.3 | from my mom's side too, she had way less, because I knew her for way less. |
| 1:22.1 | She died when I was about 18. |
| 1:24.6 | I think it's kind of important because after all, after everything that I do here, |
| 1:28.2 | this is still a people's history of the Soviet Union. And I just want some studies not to get |
| 1:36.3 | lost in the meantime. I want some studies to live and prosper and just be told so that the real |
| 1:43.4 | history, the one that people actually live, gets out there. |
| 1:47.2 | So this time, you're going to have a studies from a Soviet surgeon. |
| 1:52.3 | Well, not exactly. |
| 1:53.4 | See, my grandmother, Miriam Andreson, she wanted to be a surgeon all the time. |
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