link to part1 https://golos.io/ru--zhiznx/@gleniana/den-pobedy-v-stavropole-chast1
On Lenin Square there were most of all people who stood shoulder to shoulder. It was not possible to get closer to watch the festive ceremony, or it was necessary to come here at 7 in the morning and take a seat.
A little later, when the parade came to an end and the ranks of people were noticeably thinned out, I took a photo.
Crossed the area by a military band.
This was followed by the Immortal Regiment. Probably all the inhabitants of the city were here. There was no end to this stream.
And we continued to walk around the festive center.
Turned on the central fountain.
Near the fountain, the youth distributed to people portions of blockade bread trying to convey the atmosphere of that difficult wartime.
On such a ration, of course, it was not possible to hold out. I remember the story of my great-grandmother when she told me how people died of starvation in the streets. Our family did not go hungry, someone helped and gave flour. They baked bread and distributed it to the hungry. I remember vividly the moment from her stories, when she, being a girl at that time, approached a dying man with bread, and he, having bitten off a piece, did not even have time to chew it, because he had died before. God, please don't let this happen again. Now I understand some old people who survived hunger when they stock up on food in our time. “What if, once again, war!”, one 97-year-old blockade woman in Leningrad tells me, our friend Maria Vasilievna who is still drying crackers and bagging. Never forget her that terrible time when at the age of twenty she helped to carry the corpses of the dead to the Piskarevskoye cemetery.
This is the daily portion of bread handed out to the hands of each person.
to be continued...