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Male | 50s | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 68
EXTRACT: I want to ask you, women: bring up your children to be worthy of their fathers. The submariners fulfilled their duty to the end. They honestly served their Motherland. We, here, did all in our powers and beyond in order to save them. Three thousand seamen of the Northern Fleet worked on the rescue of the boat, its crew ... but the circumstances were stronger than us.
Male | Age unspecified | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 69
EXTRACT: Now I come here to pier 8 often. I talk to them all in my thoughts. I tell them how their inconsolable widows still love them, how their mothers pray for them, how stoically their fathers mourn... I ask their forgiveness that I remained alive. I tried drinking during the first days but vodka doesn't work on me no matter what I try. The more I drink the more sober I get. And there is no relief.