When my grandmother was 41…

Elena Mutonono
5 min readSep 22, 2022

When my grandmother was 41 back in 1967, she taught geography in one of the Soviet schools in Simferopol. She left for work at 7 in the morning and didn’t get home until 5 PM. After work, she fixed quick dinners in a tiny 2-room brezhnevka apartment, where two narrow rooms ran into each other, the trolley style, as they called it back then.

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Elena Mutonono

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