{"id":2173,"date":"2011-06-04T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T22:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2011-06-04T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T22:06:06","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-june-4-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2173","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For June 4, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Remembered Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

World War II boyhood memories shared by Russian psychiatrist Pyotr S.:<\/p>\n

I saw a woman trying to kill herself. \u00a0In the bushes by the river. \u00a0She had a brick and she was hitting herself in the head with it. \u00a0She was pregnant from an occupying soldier whom the whole village hated. \u00a0Also, as a boy, I saw a litter of kittens being born. \u00a0I helped my mother pull a calf from its mother, I led our pig to meet up with a boar. \u00a0I remember – \u00a0I remember how they brought my father’s body, he had on a sweater, my mother had knit it herself, and he’d been shot by a machine gun, and bloody pieces of something were coming out of that sweater. \u00a0He lay on our only bed, there was nowhere else to put him. \u00a0Later he was buried in front of the house. \u00a0And the earth wasn’t cotton, it was heavy clay. \u00a0From the beds for beetroot. \u00a0There were battles going on all around. \u00a0The street was filled with dead people and horses.<\/p>\n

Back then I thought of death just as I did of birth. \u00a0I had the same feeling when I saw a calf come out of a cow – and the kittens were born – as when I saw that woman with the brick in the bushes killing herself. \u00a0For some reason these seemed to me to be the same things – birth and death.<\/p>\n

I remember from my childhood how a house smells when a boar is being cut up. \u00a0You’ve just touched me, and I’m already falling into there, falling – into that nightmare. \u00a0That terror. \u00a0I’m flying into it. \u00a0I also remember how, when we were little, the women would take us with them to the sauna \u00a0And we saw that all the women’s uteruses (this we could understand even then) were falling out, they were tying them up with rags. \u00a0I saw this. \u00a0They were falling out because of hard labor. \u00a0There were no men, they were at the front, or with the partisans, there were no horses, the women carried all the loads themselves. \u00a0They ploughed over the gardens themselves, and the kolkhoz fields. \u00a0When I was older, and I was intimate with a woman, I would remember this – what I saw in the sauna.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Culled from:\u00a0Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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