When the three soldiers are leaving the table where they ate and drank, some bottles and scraps can be seen in the background. In the next shot, however, the table is completely clean.
The old woman mentions the "Holodomor" in the evacuation scene in 1986 in reference to the genocidal famine inflicted on Soviet Ukraine. This word, which literally means "death by hunger," was not created in 1988 but was seen in print as early as the 1930s, in the years after the famine, and used in the West in the 1970s. It was not used publicly in the Soviet Union for obvious reasons, but after the effects of Glasnost, it was used by a Ukrainian Communist Party official in a speech in 1987. The old woman, who had nothing to lose, may certainly have felt entitled to use it at that moment.