European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The same two soldiers came again and tied me up and covered my eyes.
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I thought: goodbye Slovenia, Yugoslavia, I’m going to be shot.
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I knew that the Russians shot the German soldiers somewhere down there by the plum trees.
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I was sure I was going to be shot.
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The two soldiers tied up my eyes and I thought goodbye parents, I’m going to die now.
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We stepped out of the hen coop and one of them said that we’re going to headquarters.
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When we got there someone asked me my surname. Once more I said Ivan Ivanovic Srcnikov.
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He spoke Russian and said something about some measurements; I didn’t understand because he was speaking too fast.
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He explained to me that I was standing before a table and that something is on the table, but he didn’t say what.
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He said that I would have to show him by the time he counted to ten.
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I still didn’t know what.
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My eyes were still tied.
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He untied my eyes and said that I must show him where Celje is.
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I forgot to mention that I had said I was from Celje.
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I thought that if I were to say I was from Kropa, they wouldn’t know where it was.
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If I were to say I was from Gornji grad, it’d be even worse. So I said I was from Celje.
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This man, the one who pulled out the map said that if I can show him where Celje is on the map, then I am a Yugoslav.
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He said by the time he counts to ten; if I can’t, then I go to the Slivnjak, down by the plum trees.
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Then he counted ras, dva, tri, shetiri… And I showed him, here it is.
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He patted me on the shoulder and said ti Jugoslav, meaning: you are a Yugoslav and now you’ve convinced us.
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