August 1 marks the 95th anniversary of the birth of “All-Union Aunt Valya,” who devoted herself to the children of the whole country and did not always find time for her own child
She was loved by millions. Children and adults ran to television screens to watch her programs - “ Good night, kids”, “Alarm clock”, “Visiting a fairy tale” and, of course, “With all my heart”, to which the country cried.
It seemed that her huge kind heart was enough for everyone, but at the end of her life the name of the famous Soviet TV announcer Valentina Leontieva declined mainly due to family scandals.
Transfer " GOOG night kids"with the participation of Valentina Leontyeva. Screenshot of the video
Life before TV
During the war, Leontyeva experienced the siege of her native Leningrad. Then, after the death of her father in 1942, her mother and younger sisters were evacuated to the Ulyanovsk region, but eighteen-year-old Valya remained behind: there were not enough sanitary attendants.
After the war, she tried to acquire a “serious” profession, but her heart was not in it, and in 1948 Valentina graduated from a theater school, after which she served in the Tambov Drama Theater for two years.
And then something happened that gave millions Soviet people"Valechka" on a blue screen. In 1954, Valentina Leontyeva was cast on television and soon became an announcer. The smiling, natural presenter won many hearts.
Two failed marriages
But Valechka could not cope with her heart. First, the marriage with her first husband, a radio director, broke up Yuri Richard. Then the second husband found a replacement for the always busy and in-demand wife, Yuri Vinogradov.
He served as an employee of the Soviet diplomatic mission in New York, and Valentina went there, following her husband, at the peak of her career, leaving everything for the sake of her family. Upon returning to the USSR, Yuri began to drink; according to rumors, he began to have problems with his men. And when Valentina arranged for him to be treated by prestigious doctors, the husband put himself in order, but began an affair with a younger woman, and the family fell apart.
The family was “ruined by the housing issue”
In family litigation, the son took his father's side. A significant role in that decision was played by the children’s resentment at the constant absence of their mother. After all, every evening my mother told fairy tales from the TV screen to everyone, but not Mitya. One day he shouted to her that she was not his, but “everyone’s mother.”
They said that over the years the boy's character only deteriorated. Forced to live with his mother in the same apartment, he threw scandals and made life under the same roof so unbearable for his mother that she decided to exchange her huge “Stalinist” apartment on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street. I gave the two-room apartment to my son, but kept the one-room apartment for myself.
After the USSR collapsed and television no longer needed “Aunt Valya,” this “one-room apartment” became her kind of pension. Aunt Valya rented out a Moscow apartment and lived with this money in Novoselki Ulyanovsk region under the supervision of his sister.
They began dividing the inheritance while Leontyeva was still alive
Around famous personalities heaps of relatives and “friends” constantly swarm. And questions of inheritance division constantly arise. This cup has not passed from Valentina Mikhailovna.
Sister Galina had plans for a Moscow apartment, but the son, practically through blackmail, forced his mother to transfer the property to him, after which the apartment was immediately sold, and the money was invested in an enterprise that quickly went bankrupt.
Then Galina called Mitya and said that the apartment right next to them was for sale, saying that her mother needed separate housing. Dmitry sent the money required for the purchase, the apartment was purchased, Valentina Mikhailovna moved into it.
And then Dmitry accidentally received information that this housing was allocated to his mother local authorities for free. According to the son, he, seeing the commercialism of his relatives, prepared the conditions for his mother to move to Moscow, bought an apartment for her to replace the sold one-room apartment, but did not manage to complete his plan.
Rumors, gossip, intrigue
When journalists interviewed Dmitry, he complained that his relatives were turning his mother against him and spreading rumors about his obnoxious character.
At one time, the media made waves that allegedly Valentina Mikhailovna moved in with her sister after being brutally beaten by her son, who broke her hip. And these rumors spread immediately after he did not allow my mother’s apartment, which belonged to her after the exchange, to be transferred to her sister.
All these property squabbles and the progressive illness of “Aunt Valya” became the reason that in recent years the son and mother practically did not communicate. The sister said that Mitya avoided communication, and the son blames Galina and her intrigues for the cooling of the relationship, but at the same time claims that he communicated with his mother by phone until the end and the relationship was normal, not tense.
Nevertheless, the son did not come to the funeral, and this is still blamed on him. But Dmitry named his son in honor of his mother - Valentin.
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On August 1, Valentina Leontyeva, People’s Artist of the USSR, television announcer, host of the programs “Good Night, Kids!”, “Visiting a Fairy Tale,” and “With All My Heart,” would have turned 93 years old, but in 2007 she passed away. Charming Aunt Valya was adored by little TV viewers and their parents; Bulat Okudzhava and Arkady Raikin were in love with her; she was married twice, but called television her greatest love. She had to sacrifice a lot to this love.
Valentina Leontyeva
Valentina Leontyeva in the first studio of the program *Good night, kids!*, 1960s
Valentina Leontyeva was born on August 1, 1923 in Leningrad. During the Second World War, the family had to endure a blockade and famine, which she could not forget about until the end of her days. They made jelly from wood glue and soup from a leather belt cut into small pieces. To distract her daughters from thoughts about food and curb their appetite, the mother taught them to smoke. Valentina was a heavy smoker all her life and gave up this habit only a year before her death.
Valentina Leontyeva – host of the program *Good night, kids!*
*Aunt Valya Soviet Union*
Valentina dreamed of becoming an actress and in the post-war period she graduated from the Opera and Drama Studio. Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theater, worked at the Tambov Drama Theater, and then came to television. She first appeared on screen in 1954. Her debut as an announcer was unsuccessful: she had to read a message on the New Year tree in the Central House Soviet army, and she got so excited that she started stuttering. But this was the only mistake. 10 years later, not a single holiday program on central television took place without her participation.
Announcer and TV presenter Valentina Leontyeva
There were many romantic stories in her life. One day, in 1945, immediately after the Victory, Valentina saw a captured German who was digging a trench, and he asked her for bread. She obtained permission to feed him dinner, and 10 years later he returned to the USSR to thank her and propose to her. She refused him, as well as another suitor - an Arbat boy who sang songs to her and dedicated poems. It was Bulat Okudzhava. They met 40 years later, when Leontyeva was asked to invite the poet to a TV show. And a month after this meeting, Bulat Okudzhava died. Valentina said: “I now terribly regret that we lost these forty years without seeing each other - how many things could have been different!”
Leontyeva with female miners on the set of the program *With all my heart*
She got married for the first time in student years. This marriage was short-lived and broke up due to her husband’s infidelity. For the second time, Valentina married diplomat Yuri Vinogradov, with whom she fell in love at first sight. They lived together for 28 years, but then separated. Two years after the birth of their son, Valentina became the host of the program “Good night, kids!” Her son was very jealous of all her children, to whom she paid more attention than him, and was worried that his mother was “everyone,” and not just him.
Valentina Leontyeva – host of the program *Good night, kids!*
Leontyeva devoted 50 years of her life to television and called it her own great love. She admitted: “Television was my number one home. I left for work and my son was still sleeping. When I came back I was already asleep. She didn’t swaddle her or even feed her.” Perhaps this became the reason for their discord in the future. The son rarely communicated with his mother, and in recent years, he did not see each other at all, and did not even come to her funeral.
Valentina Leontyeva on the set of the program *Good night, kids!*
At the same time, millions of Soviet children adored Aunt Valya and waited for new releases of “Spokushki,” as they called “Good night, kids!” She was also the host of the programs “Visiting a Fairy Tale”, “Alarm Clock”, “From the Theater Box”, the holiday “Blue Lights” and the search program “With all my heart”. She was lovingly called Aunt Valya of the Soviet Union, and became the only female announcer on Central Television to be awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR.
People's Artist of the USSR Valentina Leontyeva
In the 1990s. The most difficult period began for Valentina Leontyeva: all her programs were closed, the new management did not see her as an announcer or presenter. She was transferred to the position of assistant director, and later - a consultant in the sign language translation department. At the same time, health problems began. In 2004, after an unsuccessful fall, Leontyeva developed memory lapses and her vision deteriorated. Last days she spent with her sister in the village of Novoselki in the Ulyanovsk region, where she was buried.
Announcer and TV presenter Valentina Leontyeva
In her declining years, Leontyeva lamented: “Television now is not what it was before. Then there was more sincerity in people, we loved our work. That’s why the programs turned out to be sincere and kind. What now? Endless games and shows in which greed, immorality and thirst for profit reign.”
Monument to V. Leontyeva in Ulyanovsk
Of all the achievements and awards, Valentina Leontyeva considered the title “Aunt Valya” to be the most important - this is how millions of young TV viewers in the Soviet Union addressed the woman. Several generations grew up watching children's programs hosted by Valentina Mikhailovna. Soviet citizens. The kids wrote letters to Aunt Valya and asked her not to go on vacation, which she did. In the future, adults will also join the army of little fans - the audience watched the program “With all my heart” with a breath, rejoiced and cried along with its heroes.
Childhood and youth
The real name and surname of the TV presenter is Alevtina Thorson. The girl was born into a family of native St. Petersburg residents. The parents had the same profession - they served as accountants: the father, a Swede by nationality, worked as the chief accountant at Oktyabrskaya railway, and the mother managed the financial affairs of the hospital. The couple was separated by a 20-year age difference.
Alevtina and her sister Lyudmila were very attached to dad. Therefore, even after getting married, they did not change their last name. My father played the violin masterfully and often organized merry musical festivals and masquerades at home. That's when the girl's love for acting and the theater. Since childhood, Valya went to a theater club organized at the Youth Theater.
The future TV presenter was almost 18 years old when the Germans attacked the country with war. During the blockade, the whole family remained in Leningrad, Valya joined the ranks of the sanitary squad, helping the dying and wounded to survive.
The girl suffered her first terrible loss - the blockade took the life of her beloved father. A little later, he and his mother and sister managed to evacuate.
In 1944 she entered the capital's Institute of Chemical Technology, but never began her studies. She worked part-time at a clinic, thinking about connecting her life with art. As a result, she entered and graduated from the opera and drama studio at the Moscow Art Theater.
Career
The newly minted actress ended up in Tambov, where she played in the local theater for two years. And in 1954, the biography of a young woman was illuminated by television. Valentina withstood a tough competition for the position of assistant director. Soon she was already known in every corner of the Soviet Union as the charming announcer of Central Television.
Valentina Mikhailovna could not do without such bright programs as “Blue Light”, in a duet with the host of the program “From the Theater Box”, her voice was heard from holiday broadcasts. But in the late 60s she left the country with her diplomat husband. However, she did not stay long in America, where her husband was sent. Two years later she returned to her homeland, where a new, even more grandiose turn in her career began.
Valentina Mikhailovna turned into Aunt Valya, the favorite of Soviet children. The woman was the host of TV shows popular with children “ Skillful hands", "Alarm clock", "Visiting a fairy tale" and, of course, "Good night, kids." Young spectators flooded Leontyev with letters. The envelopes usually had a short message - “TV. Tete Valya,” but the messages certainly reached the addressee.
The kids wrote about how their day went, drew colorful pictures, and asked to send greetings to Fil, Stepashka and Khryusha. The television animals were also sent “tigrams”, which Aunt Valya certainly “handed over” personally.
When asked by journalists how to explain universal childish love, Valentina Leontyeva admitted: sometimes she herself began to believe that funny little animals were quite alive. She even came up with a birthday for each doll. Until the end of her life, she was sensitive to the letters sent, which were carefully stored in numerous boxes. From time to time Valentina Mikhailovna re-read the correspondence.
Leontyeva can be seen in some films, where she appears on television as an announcer. And the woman gave the voice to Baby’s mother in the first cartoon about (1968).
In the summer of 1972, the program “With all my heart” was broadcast, which was expected to become incredibly popular. The program became the peak of Valentina Leontyeva’s creativity; the woman devoted 15 years of her life to it. “With all my heart” was conceived in the genre of artistic journalism, a documentary performance, the heroes of which were people with unique, complex destinies.
Valentina Mikhailovna was visited by miners and factory workers, rural workers and war veterans, teachers and doctors. The plot was built around the motive of separation: the characters lost each other many years ago, and finally met on air.
For her work in this program, the TV presenter received the USSR State Prize. In Leontyeva’s collection of awards, there was a place for another unusual title - she is the only female announcer who became the People’s Artist of the USSR.
She shared this title with Igor Kirillov. The next award came to Valentina Mikhailovna only in 2000: she was awarded “TEFI” in the nomination “For personal contribution to the development of domestic television.”
In the late 80s, Leontyeva advised television announcers, and during the years of perestroika she faced a shortage of work. I made an attempt to resume the program “With all my heart,” but the efforts were in vain. But the woman was a welcome guest on celebrity programs. In 1993 about creative path and personal life, Valentina Mikhailovna spoke in the episode of the program “Love Story”.
Personal life
The TV presenter noted in an interview:
“Unfortunately, there weren’t many fairy tales in my life. Such happy moments were associated only with television viewers.”
Valentina Leontyeva was married twice. I first went to the registry office when I served at the Tambov Theater. The chosen one was radio director Yuri Richard, who later moved his wife to the capital.
The couple shared a home for four years, and then the family broke up. The husband wanted to see his wife as the mistress of the house, but Valentina Mikhailovna worked seven days a week, explaining:
“How could I do otherwise? There were few of us announcers."
The second husband, diplomat Yuri Vinogradov, was an employee of the diplomatic mission of the Soviet Union in America. The love story began in a Moscow restaurant, where the couple met. In this marriage, a son, Dmitry, was born.
In the late 60s, the family moved to New York. This move became the reason for the appearance of newspaper gossip that allegedly Leontyeva was a CIA agent. Returning from America, Valentina went back to work, although her financial situation allowed her to lead the life of a housewife. But the woman could not give up her favorite television. As a result, the husband left, finding another woman.
Valentina Mikhailovna smoked all her life, and smoked a lot - a couple of packs of Marlboros a day. However, her voice remained the same, ringing and young. And the television announcer was an excellent car driver, even driving south on her own.
Tragedy recent years life is called the fact that the favorite of Soviet children was not spoiled with attention by her grown-up son, Dmitry Vinogradov. The man, who became an artist, allegedly beat his mother, did not allow her to go out, and then forced her to change housing in the center of the capital and settled her in a village near Ulyanovsk. The press noted that the heir does not communicate with his mother and did not attend her funeral.
“Let Them Talk” program about Valentina LeontyevaOn August 1, 2018, Dmitry Vinogradov came on the air of the “Let Them Talk” program to tell the details of his relationship with his star mother. The man explained that Valentina Mikhailovna ended up in the Ulyanovsk village of Novoselki after hospitalization. Three years before her death, the woman broke her hip and was treated at the Kremlevka. Then the sister of the TV presenter, who lives in this village, promised proper care. The son really rarely saw his mother due to strained relations with relatives.
Death
At the end of her life, Valentina Leontyeva almost lost her sight, she could not watch TV even with glasses, she tried to read with a magnifying glass. The television legend died at the end of May 2007. The cause of death, according to some media reports, was complications from pneumonia.
The funeral was held modestly, without any fuss. Leontyeva’s former administrator Andrei Udalov and two of her students came from Moscow to say goodbye to the announcer. At the request of Valentina Mikhailovna, the body was not transported to Moscow; the grave is located in the village cemetery in the village of Novoselki.
Transfers
- "Blue Light"
- "From the Theater Box"
- "GOOG night kids"
- "Alarm"
- "Visiting a fairy tale"
- "Skillful hands"
- "Heartily"
- "Telescope"
The whole life of this legendary Soviet woman shrouded in rumors and myths. CT announcer and TV presenter Valentina Leontyeva would have celebrated her 95th birthday this year. She was truly a screen star. When “Visiting a Fairy Tale” and “Good Night, Kids” started showing on TV, the streets of the entire Soviet Union became deserted. All the children sat at home and watched their favorite TV shows with delight. But how did Valentina Leontyev remember her? native son Mitya? One day, the announcer admitted that she paid much more attention to her work than to her son... Watch the episode of the talk show Let Them Talk - Valentina Leontyeva’s son: “All about my mother” 08/01/2018
There was talk in the press that the legendary Soviet TV presenter was experiencing family problems. Not everything was as smooth at home as at work - Valentina Leontyeva herself admitted this more than once with tears in her eyes. “I kept tripping, they kept tripping me up,” she once said. Her son Dmitry did not like the enormous popularity. He was constantly embarrassed when his mother was recognized by passers-by on the street. Today in Let Them Talk, the son of Valentina Leontyeva will openly talk about his childhood, youth and famous mother.
Dmitry Vinogradov: “Everyone who speaks badly about me soon dies.”
Rumors also began to circulate that Dmitry was raising his hand against his own mother and treating her very badly. The man himself today denies such statements. “I lived with my mother until I was 45 and we always got along in the family,” says Valentina Leontyeva’s son. The announcer died in Ulyanovsk, the city where her sisters lived. After Leontyeva’s death, her family and friends began to tell shocking details about the relationship between her son and mother. Dmitry remained silent for 10 years and now decided to tell the whole truth about himself and his mother - the truth that only he knows.
Let them say - Valentina Leontyeva’s son: “Everything about my mother”
The legendary “Aunt Valya”... in 2018, the famous USSR announcer would have turned 95 years old. She was called the most beautiful woman Soviet television, and when programs with her participation were broadcast, the streets of all cities of the Soviet Union became empty. In this issue, Let Them Talk - Son of Valentina Leontyeva: “Everything about my mother”: Dmitry Vinogradov will tell all the details of his relationship with his mother. Was everything smooth in this family?
Dmitry Vinogradov: “I just wanted them all to die, and...cursed them.”
For many years he refused interviews, but for “Let Them Talk” he will tell his truth. More than 10 years ago, Valentina Leontyeva admitted more than once in interviews that she paid very little attention to her son, unlike television career. Little Mitya, unlike his peers, went to bed when his mother was still at work. “All this popularity that befell me actually played a cruel joke on me: I couldn’t calmly walk the streets, go shopping or go to the movies,” Valentina Mikhailovna said in an interview.
Valentina Leontyeva and her son Dmitry Vinogradov. Let them talk
The famous TV presenter and CT announcer Valentina Leontyeva died on May 20, 2007 in the Ulyanovsk region. And after her death, rumors spread in the media that The only son Dmitry treated her poorly and even attacked her with his fists. In this broadcast of “Let Them Talk,” Dmitry Vinogradov, after a long silence, decided to tell his version...
Dmitry Vinogradov:
— I lived with my mother until I was 45. Well, it’s just nonsense, it would seem! But in reality we just had big flat and we had a very good trusting relationship with my mother. All actresses love to complain, and her friends from the acting community came to her mother and talked about their problems. Perhaps in response, my mother also complained about my father and me. I'm just now trying to find the roots of those rumors about me.
“Mom was extremely popular. Taxi drivers did not take money from her, and at the market they gave her food for free. I wasn't at all annoyed by her fame, but I just didn't public person. After my mother’s death, they repeatedly threw mud at me, they removed as many as 7 programs, but I didn’t even react, since only my opinion is important to me. Only I can know where I am good and where I am bad.
Dmitry Vinogradov will talk about how his enemies died one by one and how he really treated his mother. Watch below the episode of the program Let Them Talk - Valentina Leontyeva’s Son: “All About My Mother”, broadcast on August 1, 2018 (08/01/2018).
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May 20 will mark ten years since the death of the star of the programs “Visiting a Fairy Tale” and “With All My Heart” Valentina Leontyeva. She was an idol for adults and children, but there were persistent rumors in the media that she own son She had a very tense relationship with Dmitry. Moreover, allegedly in her old age, Leontyeva suffered beatings from her only heir. Dmitry Vinogradov commented on the most common rumors about himself and privacy to his mother.
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Now the man lives more than 100 kilometers from Moscow in own home. Dmitry is engaged in creativity - since 2011 he has been a professional artist. According to Vinogradov, he “enjoys life” - reads books, rides a bike, kayaks, walks in the forest, works.
To begin with, Dmitry denied the information that he and his mother had a strained relationship. "We had great relationship with mom. She never scolded me, for example, for bad grades, never got irritated, never raised her voice at me, and was always an absolute diplomat. The fact is that she is an extremely well-mannered and educated woman; she could not afford to behave the way some boorish people behave. And as a result, we had a wonderful relationship. And the large apartment allowed us to live completely independently and not disturb each other,” Dmitry noted.
According to Vinogradov, his mother was a bright, independent woman who smoked a lot and even drove a car herself. In addition, Valentina Leontyeva had a very tough character. Dmitry also noted that his mother had many enemies, “like any famous person.”
The man said that he had no complexes because of his famous mother and he did not feel lonely, as journalists presented him to the public. “Not only was the burden of my mother not pressing on me, but no one blamed me for her fame - no one, by and large, cared,” Vinogradov said.
Dmitry is sure that big influence It was not his mother who influenced him at all, but his father, an employee of the USSR diplomatic mission in New York, Yuri Vinogradov. "My father is a cheerful, educated, intelligent, encyclopedically savvy person in all respects. Who was never a snob, never surrounded himself with special the right people. He went on vacation for forty years - and even more - to a small seaside town. He was surrounded by academics, drivers, and retired boxers. It was he who taught me to enjoy communicating with all people, without dividing them into classes or castes... Dad ate and lived by large tablespoons in all respects,” said Dmitry.
In the 70s, Valentina Leontyeva and Yuri Vinogradov divorced. However. according to Dmitry, he was not worried about their breakup. However, he does not maintain relations with his father's other family. “I don’t have my mother’s and father’s photographs placed in my house - I think about them, they are in my head and in my heart, and showing them to someone, demonstrating that I remember them, is stupid and some kind of posturing. In general, about the carnival in which I lived since childhood, I would not say that it was so much fun. Mom always played a little - it was in her blood, "Moskovsky Komsomolets quotes Dmitry Vinogradov.
Three years before Valentina’s death, Leontyeva went to stay with relatives in Novoselki. Vinogradov explained that the mother suffered a fracture of the femoral neck. The presenter's sister Lyudmila and her daughter Galina volunteered to look after her, inviting her to live with them for a while. There are rumors that this happened as a result of an alleged violent clash between Leontyeva and her son. “Listen, I’m a boxer, I demolish men with one blow, and my mother was small, fragile... how do you imagine this? What nonsense?! In general, relatives began to spread rumors that I beat my mother - after they failed get half of my mother’s apartment,” Vinogradov is convinced.
As Dmitry said, after his mother left, he began sending her her entire pension and salary. Galina also took a lot of furniture from her Moscow apartment. And then interesting things began to happen. “At first it was said that there was enough space in my sister’s apartment for everyone - and Valentina Mikhailovna, of course, too. After some time, Galina called me and said that an apartment in their building on the same floor was for sale and it would be nice for my mother to buy it. I was somewhat surprised by the price of this apartment, but I had no idea that my sister could play some kind of dishonest game with me, and I sent the money. But then I was extremely surprised to learn that this apartment was allocated by the local administration," the presenter's son said.
The unpleasant story ended tragically. “Ill-gotten things never bring happiness, and especially in such a situation. After some time, Galina’s two sons died, who simultaneously crashed in an accident, and less than a year after that, Galina herself died,” said Vinogradov.
It is no secret that while Leontyeva lived with relatives, her son did not come to see her. He explained it this way: “We talked on the phone, communicated, I was going to come there, but, on the other hand, she was going to return, everything was already prepared.” It turns out that Dmitry bought two apartments for himself and his mother.
When the presenter died, Dmitry Vinogradov was not seen at the funeral. "She wanted to be buried next to her mother. The place is Vagankovskoe cemetery has already been allocated. And her relatives violated her will. And in the future they simply used my mother’s popularity to achieve their personal interests,” said Dmitry. At the same time, he noted that he visited his mother’s grave “one day,” before he left for the Moscow region.
Leontyeva was worried that Dmitry did not have children. However, Vinogradov became a father at the age of 45, which he does not regret at all. The man dotes on his offspring. “Very smart, very kind, very attentive - the most important being for me in this world. Apart from my son, I have no one, and besides my son, nothing interests me. He comes to me on vacation, and lives with his mother. Mom - a very good professional makeup artist, and there is simply no work for her here. Here we ride bicycles, kayak, walk in the forest, read books, and my greatest achievement is that I weaned him from the computer. Nobody believes me, but in fact it’s very simple: you just need to do it,” Vinogradov is convinced. At the same time, Dmitry does not know how he sees his son in the future.
Vinogradov explained: “I want him to be the way he wants to be. I have no right to dictate here. He has the right to live his life as he sees fit. I can give him some advice, but in no case put pressure on him.” "The pressure is on people who are squeezed, enslaved, who live in some kind of non-existent cliches that they have built for themselves; therefore, whatever he wants, he will do."
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