one of those old trees-limes, elms, plane trees, chestnuts-which a dozen years later, in the freezing winter of Stalingrad, were to be sacrificed for firewood, but which in 1929 still raised their great leafy umbrellas high above the city walls.
handik dozena bat urtera, Stalingradoko negu hozminean, su-egurra egiteko sakrifikatuak izango ziren, baina artean 1929an hiriko bastioien gainetik beren hosto-itzalpe handiak altu samar altxatzen zituzten zuhaitz zahar-ezki, zumar, platano, gaztainondo-haietako bat zen.