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Issues with one Nikolai Ribkovsky

So i was Watching this video [(https://youtu.be/i8ROieDwLBw)], and I wasn't minding the usual historical liberal historicisms, because what are you going to do about it (don't get worked up over things you can't change and all) but my ears perked up at 20:35 with that quote. If you don't want to watch the video, here's the excerpt,

"Yes, only under the bolsheviks, under such soviet power is it possible to rest under the conditions of war, of a prolonged seige of such a city...what could be better? We eat, drink, stroll about, sleep or we simply have nothing to do."- Nikolai Ribovsky (I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say it's a typo)

But the thing is, I can't find the original source. I can find a RFE article [(https://www.rferl.org/a/legacy-issue-comedy-on-siege-of-leningrad-attracts-the-spotlight/29554769.html)] which links to a crowd funding page which mentions him but has a different quote. A site called "free idel-ural" which says the nazis didn't blockade leningrad and starve it, and says "our goal: the collapse of russia and the creation of a new state in its ruins." (I'm going to refrain from linking this since im genuinely concerned about its content). It actually has a more similar quote to the one he uses. There's this Gale article [https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA634850390&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=0307661X&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E58f73e8d&aty=open-web-entry] but I currently don't have access to it.

The last thing is the Russian wikipedia page >https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9,_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87#CITEREF%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%98._%D0%98.1975]. It's actually the closest, with a very similar quote even through machine translation. It even includes a portion about its authenticity. But it's still not super helpful. It still only quotes the same quote all the other sources talk about. The cited source is "Soviet trade unions in the Great Patriotic War : 1941-1945" published in 1975, which is still unhelpful since

A.I don't speak Russian

B.I can't find it anyway even if I did

Honestly I'm not expecting anyone here to actually have a source though cor obvious reasons. So I just wanted to ask two things

1.Are there other party member sources from the time that coaberate or contradict this one and the general idea that party members were feasting while the people were starving?

  1. The other sources start with him saying he's being sent to a sanatorium. That's a hospital, no? It would still be lavish for a hospital during a horrible siege, but the sources act as if he's just at home or work when being treated like this. Is this a translation thing or...?

[Yes, I know in the grand scheme of things this is minor. I think I have such an issue because I'm having to look this up. In all fairness I could dismiss this since, without being able to examine the evidence, it's as though the evidence doesn't exist. But...idk, I'm annoyed it all]

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