Текст книги "FLAG OF THE HOLY MOTHERLAND"
Автор книги: Олег Рыбаченко
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The red-haired devil was skeptical:
– Everything can be explained from a materialistic position. It is only necessary to have relevant knowledge.
The major shrugged, his hair was already streaked with gray, and he really seemed at least forty years old. Angelica is still preferred by younger guys. And not too interested in major, as a man. Although curious, what is he unusual saw? Maybe devils?
Angelica held bare soles on the sharp part of the weapon. The heel became ticklish, and the fire beauty smiled.
Then she asked the major:
– And what have you seen?
He unexpectedly answered:
– You know, I'll tell you this at the next meeting!
Angelica was skeptical:
"But you can be killed?"
The major with deliberate indifference said:
– So this is the fate! Like you beauty!
Redhead seriously answered:
"I am a witch, and witches do not die in war!"
The major burst out laughing and stroked the girl on the fire head:
"An atheist witch ... It's so interesting!"
Angelica answered seriously:
– It does not interfere! In addition, not believing in hell, where bolder you are doing witchcraft!
The major still wanted to say something, as three shells sank into the KV tank ahead. Carefully disguised, the Germans set up an ambush. Moreover, one tank was the newest modification of the T-4 with a long-barreled 75 a millimeter cannon, capable of penetrating close-range and frontal armor KV. Again, the girls had to engage in an unequal battle. But apparently this is their fate – to fight and win! And nothing can be done against this even with their heroism!
Although when you win victories in this, then the whole charm! No fear!
Natasha sings loudly;
The fascist executioner pulls out his shoulders,
Here is the rack, tongs, drills at hand!
He wants to cripple the body of the soul,
A worthless monster, but seemingly cool!
It promises money, steamboats in the sea,
What even the title can give!
Actually let you in expenses
After all, for him you are just a corpse and a game!
He wants to know about our business,
What new chain to chain the poor!
Therefore, chasing generously I get on,
To forget the father and even the mother!
But we will serve the Motherland hard,
We do not break the cruelty executioner!
The branch will bend by the wind,
And babies bare crying is heard!
Yes, I lost the first difficult round,
But to recoup the Almighty will give a chance!
And after that I will send the enemy to the knockout,
My fist tight jaw reptile will give!
Motherland gives me such strength
What pain can all the torture overcome!
And come out of this bottomless grave,
So as not to gobbled up, angry bear!
A little more and salvation is close -
We will achieve victory over the enemy!
To live under the cover of the light of communism,
So that the sun flooded the house with gold!
. CHAPTER number 1.
The boy-child prodigy Oleg Rybachenko showed his girlfriend Margarita Bulgakova an intricate drawing made on the tablet. The girl, blinking blue eyes in bewilderment, said:
– These are some scribbles ...
The boy shook his head in reply.
– Yes, no ... This is the original way of moving in parallel universes. As you do not understand, I made a discovery!
Margarita laughed and noticed, pointing her fingers at the tablet:
– Until I see in reality, I will not believe! You are not yet thirteen, and you are claiming to be open to the academicians!
The light-haired boy with a haircut halfbox confidently stated:
– I know what I do! You can go to my country house and I will show it really works!
A tall girl with a quickly forming figure shook her long hair and answered, after a short pause:
– Now we will go ... What time to pull!
Oleg nodded to the girl, and politely suggested:
– Follow me!
Margarita went for the boy. Oleg Rybachenko was the pride of the school: a round high achiever, the winner of many olympiads, an athlete. But at the same time, it is disliked by many schoolchildren for their dissimilarity to the rest. In particular, in the classroom the boy wrote fantastic stories, which sometimes sadness in magazines, but their plot was often very elaborate. Often the boy didn"t say the smartest jokes. Often spoke negatively about the authorities, and in general was a black sheep.
Perhaps that is why Oleg and worked hard on boxing, not to become an outcast, and not to be beaten. The boy's knuckles are full and large. The face on the contrary is round, pretty, and kind.
Margarita is also an excellent student, and she loved to write different stories. The boy and girls became friends and went to the disco together. But at the same time, they often quarreled.
But now, on the way to the courtyard, Oleg and Margarita were blocked by the high school students. They began to growl wildly and make vulgar jokes. The boy, without thinking twice, snatched a plastic pistol, and drove it along the offenders with an electric arc.
The bugs fled in fear. Margarita showing them the tongue, and shouted:
– Here you will be!
And scared, she whispered to Oleg:
– Get out sooner, otherwise you will get into a special school!
The boy shivered. He really was almost shut in a beetle, for various skirmishes with high school students. Not only has already come home the policeman. Put the handcuffs on the child, and brought him into the yard, so that everyone could see.
Under guard, in handcuffs, they took the boy to the institution. Here Oleg really scared. What is it really sent to a real prison only for children? Brought to the institution itself behind barbed wire. And forced to undress, squat stretched out his arms in front of a mirror. Then a police lady in rubber gloves put her fingers into her mouth. It was disgusting and humiliating.
After various measurements, photographing in profile, full face, weighing. And then his hands smeared with black paint and forced to play the piano.
It was all humiliating, embarrassing and scary. After that, he also shaved his bright head with the head off as a felon, gave off a robe and broken shoes that were not the size. Led along the corridors. Everywhere openings, grilles, mesh. Horror ...
And then the camera itself, where he opened the door. There on the bunks slept the boys.
Externally, however, not so scary. The room is spacious for eight people, there are several pictures hanging, and even a TV can be seen. The boys woke up. About his age, with short haircuts. Only who is older than fourteen years in tattoos. They asked a few questions. The eldest said:
– Well, now to sleep ... here is the most terrible climb at six in the morning ... Postponement on the day off! Like a normal kid!
Really flooded early, drove to the gym. It looks like a summer camp, but not very comfortable. But educators in police uniform and strict. The food is quite normal, not worse than in a regular camp, even oranges were given. Study in general from the bald, work only a few days a month ... In principle, you can live ...
In the evening, even with the boys watched TV, frolicked on computers. I slept normally at night – children's sleep is strong. Oleg Rybachenko stayed in a special school for two days, and was returned back. It"s certainly psychologically unpleasant behind bars, but you can live. And the boy after that even became more impudent. In any case, classmates in front of him began to experience fear.
The teachers appreciated the intellect and great abilities of Oleg, who knew several languages and pulled out the school at the Olympiads. But the episode with the special school really was. The biggest, albeit temporary loss – hairstyles. Although with a shorn skull, the boy has a much more awesome appearance.
In the courtyard, they mounted motor scooters ... Formally, it"s still too early to drive such a car, the guys are quite large and smart, the police did not slow them down.
Rushing down the street, the boy and girl were still talking on cell phones.
Margarita asked Oleg:
– And what did you really move in time?
The boy nodded confidently.
– Yes, and I saw something interesting!
Margarita was curious and, she asked:
– And what exactly?
Oleg Rybachenko said with a laugh:
– Well, I have seen so far only the past of the planet Earth. Including the Great Patriotic War.
Margarita asked in surprise:
– Was there also a Great Patriotic War in a parallel universe?
The boy nodded his light blond head.
– Yes, it was! And even worse than in our ...
Margarita whispered:
– Our country is still far away, tell us a little what you saw?
The boy eagerly began to tell the girl, seen in an alternate universe.
– The Germans abandoned plans to attack Stalingrad and transferred the burden of hostilities to Africa. Already in June 1942, a dozen fascist divisions were deployed on the black continent. And in July, the Germans defeated the British in Egypt, seizing Alexandria. In August, the fascists were able to break through to Iraq, where with the support of the local population they took Baghdad. At the same time, the British base in Malta was crushed.
In September, the Nazis took control of the Middle East. A series of defeats showed the weakness of the British against battle-worthy German units. In October, the general German offensive began in Africa. Soviet troops tried to attack near Rzhev, but did not achieve significant success.
November was held in an attempt by the Red Army to break through the defenses in the Kharkov region. But even here the Germans managed to press only a few kilometers and they withstood ...
The boy fell silent and whistled to the lips. The girl noted with dismay:
– But after all, so allies could fail at all!
Oleg nodded and confirmed:
"Most likely, but ... I did not see what happened next." And then everything could be extremely interesting.
Margarita nodded and sang:
There are many ways in the world – you won"t collect bones! Oleg Rybachenko sighed heavily ... Not all Shrovetide cat. Of course, it would be interesting to see how this alternative story will end. Is Russian warriors can not cope with Fritz and without unreliable allies?
The boy, meanwhile, continued to tell:
– I saw another universe in which they could not kill Rasputin and another bifurcation occurred.
Margarita excitedly nodded to the little boy:
– Well, let's tell!
Oleg Rybachenko began to briefly state.
– The fact that Rasputin survived, delayed the implementation of the February coup. As a result, the revolution did not happen. Already in late April, the Russian army launched a successful offensive in Galicia. Brusilovsky troops broke through the Austrian frontiers and surrounded Lviv. Only the approach of additional German divisions allowed the Russian offensive on the Przemysl line to be suspended. But part of the Romanian front also went on the attack. Bucharest was released. The Austrians could not withstand the stress of fighting, fled like mad hares.
The Germans and then covered it was a gap. But the position of Germany turned out to be critical, moreover the United States also stepped into the war. The allies, using tanks, increased their onslaught. In July, the Russian army launched an offensive in the area of the western front. The Germans fought desperately, but the triple numerical superiority of the Russian troops, and the lack of shells from Germany, had an effect.
German troops moved back here, went to Bug, and then after the resumption of the offensive and the Vistula ... There they became entrenched ... As a result, 1917 was successful for the Russian troops. In addition, impressive successes were achieved against the Turks. The Russian army reached the Mediterranean and united with the British. And in January 1918, the whole of Asia Minor was under the control of Russian troops.
Germany found itself in a position of heavy strategic hold. And it is extremely difficult for her to escape from the clutches of the Entente. Then King William and offered to make peace with Russia and other countries. But the position of France was unequivocal: only unconditional surrender. By this time, the Austro-Hungarian army finally collapsed and the Russian troops, despite the winter in February 1918, launched an offensive on the southern flank.
And reached the end of March to Budapest. Austria-Hungary capitulated. And on April 1, Germany announced its surrender. So ended the First World War.
Peace talks were held in Peterhof, as a result of which Russia got itself Poznan, Klaipeda, Krakow region, Galicia, Bukovina. And from Turkey also Asia Minor with the straits, as well as Constantinople.
Territorial conquests were considerable. In addition, Germany pledged to pay reparations to the parties.
In Europe, several countries emerged on the site of Austria-Hungary, and Romania, in connection with Nicholas II, significantly expanded its borders. But Bulgaria has lost. The Ottoman Empire disappeared from the world map altogether. Syria became French, Iraqi English, like Palestine. Mecca and other lands in Saudi Arabia, the allies decided to share later.
The authority of Nicholas II was strengthened and under the benevolent spirit the emperor dismissed the Duma and canceled his previous decree on elections. And so ended the era of parliamentarism in Russia ...
Then came a series of small wars. In Afghanistan – which was shared with the British, in Iran – is also a division with Britain, and a joint company in the Middle East. As a result, the recent Islamic countries have come under the political control of the Christian world.
For a long time until 1929 there was a period of stabilization of capitalism. Russia experienced rapid economic growth, coming in second place in industrial production and second only to the United States.
But the Great Depression began. A strong blow to all world economies including the Russian one.
The situation inside the country sharply worsened. The intelligentsia actively demanded democratization, liberalization, and a constitution. Everyone wanted freedom and at least some kind of democracy. In 1931, Japan announced the creation of a puppet Chinese empire in Manchuria, and invaded Shanghai.
This was the reason for the declaration of the War of the Rising Sun. Despite all the self-confidence of the samurai, the royal troops under the command of Denikin defeated the Japanese. The situation was somewhat worse at sea, but when the squadron approached from the Baltic, under the command of Kolchak, the advantage was already on the side of Russia.
As a result, a convincing revenge was taken for defeat in the former Russian-Japanese war. Russia regained control: Port Arthur, Manchuria, took Korea under patronage. South Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Taiwan were also occupied by Russian troops.
Russia became the largest Pacific power, and established hegemony on the seas. While the British Leo quickly weakened and lost their positions.
The boy-child prodigy wanted to continue to tell, but they shouted. A dozen bikers in leather jackets cut the path of a couple that rode on scooters. Bikers looked awesome: bearded, overgrown with long hair. And something ugly said ...
Oleg Rybachenko pulled out his pistol and cried out in the Sharikov style:
– Indecent words can not be expressed!
Bikers burst out laughing, opening their throats wide:
– Like, we are afraid of you!
In response, the boy pulled the trigger. Multicolored bubbles flew out. Once in the hairy creatures, they literally made them cluck and explode in abuse of pain. Bikers moved in different directions, howling and swearing indecent words.
Margarita whimpered her face and remarked:
– That's really from whom and should not take an example!
The boy nodded in agreement and shook his pistol, answering an unasked question:
– A kind of unstable electricity ... Very effective!
The girl whistled and smacked the kid on the cheek, saying:
– Yes, you're super! Made such a little thing! I knew you were a genius!
Oleg modestly replied:
– I'm just an inventor ... And while the government is not interested in my projects. – Here the boy spat contemptuously. – For a long time I want to go to college. In school, I have long been uninteresting!
Margarita sang her ringing, pleasant little voice:
– What a school life ... Where is the test every day! Addition, division, multiplication table ...
Children on scooters have already left Moscow. The majestic, beautiful city was left behind. The capital of the most powerful country in the world, it makes an indelible impression on the entire planet. But the boy with the girl does not pay attention. One thing worries them – as if, the police did not slow down, and did not demand documents from the youngsters.
But the rules, they do not violate the movement, adjusted to automatism.
Oleg Rybachenko expressed his opinion:
– The multiplication table is primitive ... I personally dream to refute Einstein's theory of relativity. In particular, the possible speeds exceeding light in a vacuum. And I have a lot of interesting ideas on this topic.
Margarita shook her head.
– You should not express them ... Theory is boring! And practice is expensive!
The boy just giggled in response ... And he added gas. Yes, these girls do not like boring scientific reasoning. Give them something simple. Like, for example, adventures with greentails. And the soul wants something else. Fly to cosmic worlds. See life beyond the solar system.
For example, a mixture of the Colorado potato beetle and pineapple. Shake hands with your brother according to reason. Or maybe a shaggy wing, or nose. How interesting must these aliens be. What do they eat for breakfast? Or maybe they replenish their energy with electricity! What are they still funny creatures!
Oleg slightly tilted the scooter and asked Margarita:
– What do you think about life on other planets?
The girl shot her eyes and answered fervently:
– I do not know ... Although the existence of other worlds is not contrary to science!
Oleg agreed and nodded:
– It's not even Newton's biome, but the Pythagorean theorem!
Margarita giggled and rang out in a juicy voice:
– As well, there is no dirty theory. We will learn necessarily connected ...
He drove lush May grove. The air is filled in late spring. And everything is so joyful in my heart, and forget-me-nots are flourishing.
The dacha of Oleg Rybachenko"s parents is rather large and elegant. With a fence and a large plot of land. The boy opened the door with an electronic key and invited the girl into the courtyard.
Oleg was cheerful, and he was impatient to show the discovery to his friend. A boy with a smile on his lips led the girl to the basement. He was excited about his discovery.
Margarita lingered. She looked at the bizarre paintings in a cubist manner and asked in surprise:
– What do you have? Scripts by Picasso?
Oleg shook his head:
– No, it's my dad indulging. He is not only a famous science fiction writer, but also an artist. Some of his paintings cost a lot of money they were auctioned off.
The girl whistled:
– A decent cottage ... Three floors, and there is a kind of underground pool.
Oleg nodded vigorously with his bright, short-haired head:
– The pool is so-so – a splash pool. But next to the laboratory, which made great discoveries.
Margarita expressed quite an adult thought:
"I"m still afraid if we"re technologically behind the West." Somehow, science fiction is not fashionable!
Oleg confidently stated:
– As long as there are guys like me ... That"s not what we can do! For example, I think how to make a weapon that neutralizes a nuclear explosion. Then, for example, to us, any of the missiles will not be terrible!
The girl giggled wittily and rounded eyes:
– Neutralization of the atomic bomb? That's cool! The boy walked back in his arms. He was as clever as a chimp. Then he got to his feet opened the doors to the basement for Margarita. They walked along the corridor, Oleg opened another armored door. The children took a few steps and ended up in the laboratory. There was a mass of various devices, sensors, flasks and test tubes. Twisted the wires ...
And in the very center of the laboratory there was something similar to a widescreen TV, but behind it were a lot of levers and buttons. Looked fancy.
The boy proudly put his fists on his hips and said:
– Here it is a time machine!
Margaret chirped in surprise:
– And this is a time machine? So much on the TV looks like ...
The girl went to the unit, pointed at the screen with her index finger. Carefully held on the surface and whispered:
– Well, you and the inventor ... And how does it work?
Oleg Rybachenko took a serious look and, turning the lever, replied:
– It shows parallel universe. We ourselves do not move in it.
Margarita became even more curious and she asked the boy:
"Well, show me something."
The boy smiled and began to turn the levers and push the buttons. An image appeared on the screen ... At first, rather muddy, and then it began to become clear.
Angular, small tanks appeared. They moved through the spring fields and fired. It was a real fight. Shreds of smoke rose into the sky, trenches burst.
And planes roared in the air. Someone twisted spirals ...
The image on the TV now and then jumped, and jumped up ... It was impossible to consider anything.
The boy turned the lever again ... It became a little clearer. Now you can see how Soviet guns shoot at German tanks. Flashes blaze near German cars. Here is one got a projectile on the tracks. She stopped and began to shoot – a German in a rage. On it again lupanul. The armor cracked, and Hitler's mastodon caught fire ...
Oleg Rybachenko sang:
– The brightest flame bonfire,
My love is burning ...
Though the enemy is treacherous and cunning,
But he will be broken!
Margarita was curious and, she asked:
– How does this story differ from ours?
The boy grinned and with a pleasant smile on his lips, answered:
– It differs a lot! Now I'll show you the last entry.
And the boy turned the two levers and pressed the button.
The image has already painfully familiar man with a mustache. He spoke German, which Margarita did not know, but simultaneous interpretation followed.
The Führer of Germany, as always, pronounced his long monologue:
– Our troops were already near Moscow itself, and they saw the Kremlin through binoculars. But the hardest frosts forced us to retreat. We won not Russian guns, but nature. Not a Russian soldier, but Russian frost! But spring comes.
At the cost of heroic efforts, the German people gathered new divisions. And now we are faced with a choice – who should be put out of action first: Britain and the United States, or Russia behind them. So gentlemen, I decided that after all the Leo's empire is much more important to crush. The Russian bear will still not be able to quickly develop its industrial potential. And we, in turn, will be able to quickly overcome the north of Africa and the Middle East from Britain.
Every day, the British and Americans are releasing more and more tanks and airplanes that press us. No doubt this should be done as quickly as possible.
Therefore, I command, reflecting the blows of the Soviet troops in the eastern direction, to refrain from conducting large-scale offensive actions, and to concentrate efforts on the Black Continent and the Middle East. It is from there that victory will come to us!
Rosenberg politely asked the Führer:
– And if the Russians will attack us?
Hitler confidently answered:
– Answer the active defense. We already have the newest T-4s with long-barreled guns that are not inferior to the Soviet T-34s. There is something to answer the Red Army. And soon there will be tanks and heavier, which will decide the outcome of the war in the east. In the meantime, promotion in Africa will decide the outcome of the war.
Field Marshal Keitel enthusiastically remarked:
– Rommel is a very talented commander. And if he is given more power, and not just two divisions, he will perform miracles. So the decision to attack in Africa, and not to go into the Russian open spaces should be considered reasonable. In addition, the attack in the Caucasus, which was proposed to us by the OKW, is operationally too risky. Since the councils can from the area of Stalingrad hit our troops in the rear. And this is fraught with the appearance of a boiler in the Caucasus.
The Fuhrer drank a glass of orange juice in one gulp. From his saw like a typical drunk. Then he croaked deafeningly. – We will break them all! This is not a game for you to play ...
Then the fascist number one moved his dog to the side – a blond shepherd. The animal rushed to hell, and knocked down a crystal glass. Ice cream, fell on the uniform of Hermann Göring. Fat Reichmarshal screamed desperately:
– Sentry!
The Fuhrer retinue burst out laughing. Everything looked extremely funny. Especially when Goering thick hands, began to smear on the uniform of the cream. From this, he only became dirtier. Female servants jumped and began to wipe the second man in the Third Reich.
Hitler giggling, said:
– And my successor is a jester!
Himmler supported the Fuhrer:
– Just some kind of clown!
The Nazi and the people turned to his chief executioner and quietly asked:
"Why does guerilla warfare grow in the territories liberated from the Bolsheviks?"
Himmler timidly replied:
– The Bolshevik propaganda is dumbing out people's brains. For twenty years of their domination, the communists so washed their heads of their citizens that they could not distinguish black from white ...
The Fuhrer took a piece of cake from the golden tray, swallowed it, drinking it down with his favorite orange juice and rationally noted:
– It is necessary to intensify the process of forming units of the former Soviet citizens in the occupied territories. It is necessary that local forces fight the bandits. In the police should take the former felons, all sorts of scum and scum. We will destroy the bandits with the hands of bandits!
Himmler indulgently stretched out and reported:
"This is already being done by my Führer!" More than a million former Soviet citizens were accepted into various, first of all, police formations. Priests of all denominations are invited to cooperate. Especially actively formed nationalist brigades in Ukraine and the Baltic States. Our recent success in the Crimea, led to the fact that the Tatars have become very willing to join the local formation. In general, to push the Soviet citizens together a lot is being done!
Lame shorty Goebbels confirmed:
– Propaganda is actively working. We shot several films for residents of the occupied territories. We distribute all kinds of tales about how well it will live under the auspices of the Reich. I even have an idea to create in Ukraine several exemplary settlements that it was rumored how to live well under the Third Reich, how nourishing!
Hitler grimaced in displeasure.
-It can be done! But best of all, our fighting power keeps the people in check. And I have to say an unpleasant discovery was that we are lagging behind the advice in military technology. Especially in tanks. I gave the order to our designers to create cars that are superior to Soviet designs. And on my birthday new Tigers were shown. Now the question is small – when will they start en masse to go to the front?
General Designer Porsche modestly replied:
– We are working hard my Führer. But the "Tiger" was too heavy. Because of this, a more powerful seven hundred horsepower engine was needed. Its fine-tuning and slows down the work.
The Fuhrer interrupted, waving his fists:
– We need a more powerful tank. And the average as a competitor to the Soviet T-34-76. Where is it? Shame on you!
And Hitler splashed juice from the glass in the face of Porsche. He only snorted and bowed to the Führer, having babbled:
– Oh, the greatest, will be ready soon! Our tanks will be tested and fire and sword at the front.
The Imperial Minister for Arms and Ammunition Speer desperately confirmed:
– The release of technology is rapidly increasing my Fuhrer. The economy is being transferred to a war footing. So everything will be in full openwork. A formidable Focke-Wulf with six firing points is ready to fight the enemy bombers. The newest Yu-188 bomber is unmatched in flight performance. I promise that due to the use of slave labor and the resources of Africa ahead of the enemy, both in quality and quantity of equipment produced!
The Fuhrer nodded confidently and said:
– We have enough slaves to repeatedly increase the production of weapons. Much is being done in this direction, but this is not enough! I will demand more!
And Hitler stepped on the bad leg Goebbels. How desperately howled this shorty. As he began to jump, like a scalded dog. And the Fuhrer laughed wildly. He caught the girl-maid by the foot, tickled her bare heel, and blinked:
– We must have a lot of just such slaves! They will serve me and bow! Already in the Third Reich twenty million slaves work, but they produce too little.
The girl smiled and chirped:
– I am ready to work my Führer!
The fascist dictator bellowed: – So let it be the work of aerobatics! We will show everyone our valor! Let all our pilots, such as Marcel, to whom I hand over the Order of the Knight of the Cross, an iron cross with oak leaves, swords and diamonds ...
The Fuhrer did not have time to finish speaking as a powerful explosion followed. Torn TV showing the past of the parallel universe. A pair of the cleverest children came under the blow of a temporary tornado and spun in a whirlwind of eras ...
. CHAPTER number 2
Rommel offensive developed successfully. Pal Tolbuk, the British fled in panic. On the eastern front, the Red Army suffered a brutal defeat near Kharkov, finding itself in a boiler. But the decision to develop an attack on Voronezh was not followed. The Germans, having achieved private success in the east, switched to active defense. The liberated forces went to Africa with the aim of conquering the black continent and incrementing new resources. A kind of alternative war plan. The Red Army, having suffered several defeats, temporarily defended. May and early June turned out to be unfortunate for her. And the whole burden of fighting was transferred to the Black Continent.