"Fira," she corrects, almost absently. Yes-fir, Fir-uh.

"People you trust. Those you live with now? If you trust them? Keep on trusting. Other people...well, back home, we would get someone else to check them. If they say they are oke, they are oke."

And, yes, living in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of Stalin's purges makes a society very, very paranoid.