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How does Lara support herself and child all those years?


Pasha runs off to enlist while their daughter is still a babe in arms. She apparently doesn't hear again from him, as she becomes a volunteer nurse to search for him, then moves to the Urals to look for him. I didn't see her running a shop or anything, so what is she doing to support her little family?

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She worked in the library at Yuriatin. That would be a government job that would pay her a basic salary.

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How does anybody support themselves in communism?

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