#Chernobyl

paramaline
peterparcer

do you know how old i am? i don’t know. old. i’m 82. i’ve lived here my whole life. right here, that house, this place. what do i care about safe? i have a job. don’t cause trouble. trouble? you’re not the first soldier to stand here with a gun. when i was 12, the revolution came. czar’s men. then bolsheviks. boys like you marching in lines. they told us to leave. no. then there was stalin and his famine, the holodomor. my parents died. two of my sisters died. they told the rest of us to leave. no. then the great war. german boys. russian boys. more soldiers, more famine, more bodies. my brother never came home. but i stayed, and i’m still here. after all that i have seen… so i should leave now, because of something i cannot see at all? no.

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