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cr being whoUy w r e of anyon* or an>ahíng. which waa only falr, since no one coukl be wholly w r o of me, Still, in the iJaces I saw—Moscow, Leningrad. Kiev, Riga, l^shkejii, Tbíliíl and ihe umns and villages around them—ihftse four characteri«Íes jeemed us be constant: the presence of the past; ihe tonsion between the individual and the «aie; ihe mixture of lovc and fear with which citízens view (heir 8ovemnicni;'and, finaUy, a apeclal beauiy in the people that derives from a sense of life M grief. ' '"Dià I see Lentn? Of coune I saw Lenin. I »aw Trotal^f, I faw the Czar. I saw him iwice! Once was in 1913, when they celebraied the 300ih annivenary of the monarchy. He stood no more ihan 30 meters aiMiy. The sccond was when a French diplomat visited the clty. Nicholas. H e h a d 40 separate litles, Emperor of Rússia! Duke of Finland! Always he exhorled ihe cossocks against ihe crowds. I looked upon his face." Mikhai] Petrovich Sinozersky. dressed in a whito forma! shin and blue joggins •panis with straps supponing his bedroom ilippers, leans forward on a chair in his blúc Leningrad apanmeiu, His bald head is nearly covered by an enormoiis whiic bandage held in place by a safciy pin, the result of minor surgery. "When ihe doctors went in, they found tho fragment of a mine." He is araused by thls, ihe 84-yearold vet, who worked twelve hours a day in a faciory at the age of twelve, fpughi in a revolution, a civil «.-ar. a worid \var, and only reiired from his job of making gears at the age of 77. The blue eyes waier sUghtly, bui the skin on his face is /tàut. Head bandaged. he still looks ready for a fight. ^V "But ycs, I saw Lenin. I saw him that sccond day of £aster when he came lo the Fmland Staiion. Lenln's sister Anna—historians ignore ihis fact—received a telegram that he wa« on the way. but she was able to teli only a few people of the event Still, iho word apread. We kids were just standíng around when suddenly we saw a huge group of workers marching along the iramway and canying a pòster, TOUIGHT LENIN IS COMING. "Everyone at my faciory knew that something big was up. The whole place, three or four ihousand people, went down lomeet ihe irain, At lOo'clock thesiaiion was pítch-dark when the train pulled in. But the soldiers of
clunbcd up on the roof. Ii was a wann night My íHond talVs like a runaway nole. and and I wailcd lix houn. We really did not sense the sigi jazz. You might have he cance of the «N-ent. Ninety-nine perceni of ihe peai wero around Sacr ' tíiere had ncvcr laid eye» on Lenin. Peier the Grtai stU That was the fira 7 ít. tall. Rumora spread that Lenín was taller. 1 Dixieland Band ' "When the traip arrived, Lenín cüi^fetó atop anon bass, Konstan m o r e d c a r a ^ ^ j N j e d t h e c r o w d / ' " V ^ ^ ' ^ · V t h a t t h e leader, the was Ihe - ^ ^ ^ ^ " ^ ^ ' ^pea Oleg Grigorycvic wercn fikttt saxophoneon the join '^itd the sound, stuck a í but own iice;
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three roonu. "What can you do?" He smiles and shrugs. Tho rain painls the city a blackened sUver. "Old joke," shouts Oleg. '•Out-of-iowner; When do you have summer in Leningrad? Leníngrader: Last year il felí on Wedncsday."* Now he ia herc in the ncighborhood of the Oriboyedov Canal, approachlng the strcet-where he lived. "Yes, I know that his works wcre once forbidden. and other great writers arc outlawred now. And yés, il bothers me. But freedom is like a giri, you know. I love her. She does noi lovome. Can I helpbut loveher anyway?" Tnickshissin the rain on what Oleg points oul as the Bridge of 16 Balls. "Why is itcalled ihai?" "The siatues ai either end. Four horsemen. Four horses. Sec how much fireedom you'ü have to print thai." Now on ihe strcet where'RaskoInikov saw the woman drowning in the canal and made no move to save her, seelng that dcath was simple. Now past the home of Porfiry Pctrovich, Raskclnikov's obsessod pursucr. Now in a poiholed alley where a strangcr lurched out of an archway and yclled at Raskolnikov, "You are the killcr!" The archway echoes footsieps. past Nos. 27, 25, 23. Al last No. 19, a yellow ,d of the sireet, where sunlighl cannoi ;o, past the dark blue walls. One ,four. Pinncd to the door of the nikov's, an oBïcial noiícc pronates thls place as a model, onor, a Standard established br the olher residents ofRasolnikov himself, if he were icdoorof Apartment 13. tending to read aloud. But noticing the grafiili on the
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Dossier: pàgs. 9 a 14
SUMARI
ENTREVISTA
• Els dèficits de l'esport de base La política d e promoció d e l'esport d'élite ha aconseguit un munt de medalles als jocs, però l'esport de base continua abandonat. Pàgina 3. B L'edifici 'intel·ligent' L'edifici de la Rambla potenciarà la terciarització del centre i el seu aparcament tindrà un fort impacte en el trànsit de la zona. Pàgina 4.
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• Rígoberta Menchii, premi Nobel de la Pau Enhorabona. Crònica de la seva estada a Barcelona. Pàgina 14.
H Les festes majors (II) La manca d'imaginació fa que moltes festes majors siguin despersonalitzades, amb continguts poc atractius. Pàgines 17 i 18.
ManudBlàzquez, objector Manuel Blàzquez té 21 anys i està en llibertat provisional. És un dels dos joves que va desertar per no anar a la uerra del Golf, i diu que ara o tornaria a fer per no anar a Bòsnia.
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