Edward Linson - November 10, 1981
Life Under the Russians
All right. Were you liberated by the Russians?
Yes, uh, uh, sure, it was a, a--maybe a year.
When the Russians came was the war still on or was it over with?
When the Russian came was, was good. For instance, you could--we could start robbing, robbing with no fear, twenty-four hours. After this they, they, they shoot you.
Did they offer you a guns?
Hm?
Did they offer you a gun?
No, they didn't. Listen the, the Germans, when they got--they run, they put away the guns. So you could take a, a machine gun, you could take--I saw, I saw airplanes was with, with, with uh, with lots of those uh, shitty uh, from the, from the trees--the branches--mask. So I took and uh, burned down maybe twelve, fifteen ???.
The ???
Yeah.
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