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PRIPJAT

To have cats in your mouth! Fucking bastards!

Damn Muscovites! A bastard!

GATE

Do you know what it all means?

Already: you don't have meat to eat.

True. We lost muscle again.

You're talking about sick animals under a car, Mom.

There is nothing sick, the most delicious meat in the world. I'm eating.

Damn bastard, smashed all my traps.

It wasn't him.

Of course. The Holy Spirit came down from heaven to earth and smashed the traps.

To make his legs curve!

Ments did it.

They chased you and cut everything to pieces.

So that you know what happens if you break the law.

Because by law, we can't hunt in our forests or eat sick animals.

How long have you known the law?

There are signs upstairs everywhere, in letters so big that it's dark!

It says in the same letters that no one can live here.

But you live. And my annoying granddaughter too.

The Lord have mercy. What do you want from me?!

Fuck him.

Your granddaughter, put yourself!

No, he's your son first and foremost.

And what about that my son? An adult.

Why are you cutting such thick slices?

Starting to hit…

Do you have two left hands or?

Leave it, Mom.

Have I taught you that ?!

Why does God punish me in this way?

Your husband did the right thing in leaving you!

OK! I'm talking to him.

Very good, make him new and old. Fucking baby.

Mom, why are you blessing her like that? Vova is your grandchild.

Your own flesh and blood and will remain so forever, until the end of time.

Until the end of time.

Pretty scary.

I'll give you a tail soon!

I give too.

You wouldn't go out like that if you went to the doctor once.

What can this doctor do? If there's nothing crazy, it goes away on its own.

And if it's a crazy thing, you better not know.

You learned to be a nurse yourself, and now you're making such a fuss.

It doesn't matter what I learned if there are no drugs anyway

and money to buy them for a long time. - The story.

For God's sake, I hated Russian power, but at least the system worked.

But today everything is fucked. Don't panic, girl, we'll survive.

I'm going to pick herbs, we don't need their chemistry.

Better keep your plants back. Damn, you know where you picked them up.

Do you want to kill us all?

I pick my own plants from the forest.

And from fields and bogs.

Where's the hat?

Here.

I gave it to you to wear on your head, not your pants!

I started to get hot.

I'm still hot for you! Put it on!

Come on, come sit on Grandma's lap.

Did you completely turn it off?

My mother says I'm too big to sit on my lap.

The mother is right. Then take Grandma in your arms!

Honestly, the screws are loose or not?

No, mom. You're an adult too, you can't be held like a baby.

So what to do?

Let me still sit on your lap. It's okay because you're older than me.

So be it.

Is this your handiwork ?!

I knew you were going to brawl!

I'm not bored.

Honestly?

Honestly.

Absolutely honest?

Absolutely.

Good thing you're not going to bother. Mom said you get terribly angry.

Did you say that? Ah, mother knew you screwed that up?

Well, I asked him for permission,

he said you'd start rabies, but he still promised to do so.

But you're not going to scream, are you?

It's not going to happen to you.

But Slava, this cow, you knew from the beginning, bastard!

Thank you very much, Vovake, thank you! It is now the case that varenics cannot be.

You can enjoy boiled potatoes!

My gold boy!

Did you mess up for mom?

That I eat too much irradiated stuff?

Wow, you must have forgotten that radiation is good for mothers.

You've said yes many times.

Then why don't you want to let your mom eat delicious and healthy meat?

I didn't shake my mom.

Sooh? Why then?

I started to feel sorry for the bunnies and goats whose mother puts on their skin.

Bunnies and goats?

And a little boar too.

Stupid! Let Satan take you!

I found a place where you hide their bones. Mole, you're like a wolf!

I told you the mole would get angry! I told you!

If you're still following me, I'll take you to your swamp,

then let the wicked virgins stone you to death there!

You, my Vovake, you.

Cheater, what's wrong?

Look.

APRIL 26, 1986

What is?

There is something on fire.

Pretty big fire. God, we hope you don't come here.

Don't talk nonsense. Pripja is so far away.

Petja…

Let's go to sleep.

I'll be right there, I'll smoke to the end.

Don't stay long.

OK.

Beautiful.

I'm not going anywhere, Petja.

I survived the Nazis during the war, I also survive your military exercises.

This is not an exercise. The radiation level has been declared extremely dangerous.

Soldiers and cops wear gas masks!

This is real dangerous radiation. Not an exercise, but a disaster!

You and your radiation!

Where is this radiation here? Nowhere!

Understand, we will be taken into custody, and it is your fault!

Enough already! I'm not going anywhere!

The cements go through all the houses one by one, they look in from every window.

Helps you and your mentees! Where should I go?

Here is my land, my garden, my house!

So who will take care of it?

Get moving now.

Ments will drive you away, the whole village will start laughing at you.

Let's go!

Lick your ass!

Who needs you ?!

Look when I go to the swamp!

I have my secret there.

And you, wretched Satan, do not command me!

I'll take your head off!

THOSE WHO OPEN THE GATE

Vasja…

Oh shit!

Parasite!

Vova, what are you doing there?

Nothing… You wanted dried dill, didn't you?

Don't beat me up, son, otherwise the horns will grow on your head!

And wash your hands, just in case.

What to wash them? I didn't beat anything.

Are you still alive?

Alive, sorry very much.

Greetings.

Not on the lips, Slava. We agreed.

I was kidding.

Where's Memmeke?

Went to town, it should be on stage today.

Probably brings bread.

I saw him, rolled along the road, and hauled after my march.

Why didn't you pick him up then?

To lubricate the car?

I wanted to talk to you anyway, without it crashing around.

If you want to talk like you always do, your conversation won't go anywhere.

You've made my life hell.

The bosses want to take my head off. Don't you have a conscience?

I have no conscience?

My mother has lived in this house all her life,

I was born here, Vovka was born here… No conscience?

I am for you.

Lavka used to visit here.

And there was electricity until some bastards lined up.

That was a long time ago. - Just.

And you're still looking for those power lines and trying to catch thieves!

Slava, no one will return electricity to you.

Get on your feet, take your son-in-law and son, that's the only normal solution.

I wish you well!

Leave what you do!

Uncle Vasja! Tram-tare-tram, tram-tare-tram…

Stop or shoot! - Get away, parasite!

You see, the traitor showed up.

I'm not your enemy.

Look, I brought you batteries.

But they're not free, are they?

Mom, forget those batteries.

He came to throw us out again.

Wait, I'm leaving once…

I came to ask you politely.

Others will drive you away.

Bandits? We heard that beehives had been destroyed in the city.

Honey was still the only thing that kept the ancients alive.

Mix a teaspoon of lard and grease your head.

Not that you need, but another.

Let stand for half an hour and then wipe off.

The boys are getting braided before you know it.

If you run out, come back. With batteries. All right, Vasya?

Clear-clear, why shouldn't it be?

If my wife gets pregnant, I'll leave the militia.

We'll drive as far as we can from here.

I already promised him.

If you promised, it must be done.

If it really works out, I won't forget you, mole.

You're a militia, Vasya, why don't you catch those bastards?

Do I have to take your gun and start judging myself?

Ten years ago, they were thugs.

But today they are the government, the people's deputies, the businessmen.

Vasja, but what about radiation? Aren't they afraid?

That's right. Have fun for a few days, ride around in their cars,

let the wild animals go and then go home.

They don't care.

There is no radiation!

Except for the stranger Gorbachev, he figured it out to get the people out of here.

Do you know, Vasya, how she was here before the accident?

Forests, households, fields, gardens…

Do you see those three pines there?

There used to be a big Silpo grocery store.

Everything could be bought there.

Don't know, haven't seen it.

I'm telling you, there was a great store, everything could be bought.

So what could you buy there? What are you doing after all?

The shelves were only full of birch sap!

What are you doing? Fresh bread every day!

And sprats in tomatoes.

All kinds of sweets, halva with sunflower seeds!

Once, even condensed milk was sold, but it ran out before I arrived.

Aga Gorbachev…

Mom, leave your fairy tales.

These are not fairy tales.

All pure truth.

Shut up if you don't know.

What fairy tales, mom?

Don't you know, baby?

No.

It is such a terrible story that anyone who speaks it will be beheaded.

Ohoo…

Helps with these stories, Mom, honestly.

Now is not the time to talk.

I like his stories. But let it come, Mommy Prisja.

At one time we had everything:

marshmallows, marsh harriers, fallow deer and field fairies.

Pure human blood flowed in the rivers.

The Mongols chased us and raped us.

Then the Poles came to pick us up.

After them the Russians.

They also killed us like flies.

90 young Ukrainian boys were killed in the same place.

Then came the golodomor …

No enemy would have been able to kill millions of hungry, but Stalin was able to build.

And then the Nazis came, but we quickly got to one side with them.

And then again the Soviet power… One horror to the other end.

But after the war, such plates began to fly around here.

All kinds of little blue men and green dwarfs…

The army tried to catch them at all costs,

but nothing.

And then suddenly, in 1985,

the same plates contacted our government for the first time.

Do you understand, Vasya, what am I talking about?

Nojaa… - Put on your hat!

Extraterrestrial beings and rest.

You don't understand shit.

But Gorba, the snake, immediately realized that there was hope in the Soviet Union

Catch up with and conquer America and Europe.

And this parasite came up with a plan, but isn't it alone -

Raissa put flies on her head, she was a wise woman.

And Gorbachev decided to build a landing pad on flying saucers.

But so that no one left their feet, it was decided to drive all the people away.

In 1986, the accident was staged, the people were driven away and everything went.

Then a secret metro tunnel was built,

From Kiev to Chernobyl, which still works today.

But then the Soviet Union disintegrated and all of Gorba's plans were put under control.

The plates still fly around at night.

With the lights off. It is said

that blue men travel on the subway dressed as ordinary people.

And they work in parliament and in government.

Are you starting to understand now, Vasya?

Not really.

Exactly.

Now these men are in the Ukrainian government and parliament

and conduct their experiments on the people,

until the people are utterly and utterly destroyed.

But don't tell anyone.

Mhmh. - There's no mhmh here.

It's a terrible secret, and if they find out you know

the tubes are pushed into your spinal cord and the bone marrow is sucked clean.

They don't touch me because I feed them rabbits.

And they love to eat!

Ah, your rabbits will go there!

I'm going to go, mom. The work is overhead.

Wait, Vasja. Maybe have lunch together?

Jajah! We have fresh and homely food.

No, eat your home without me.

Hold on!

Do you know what's under your feet, Vasya?

The same underground metro that Gorbachev built with the little blue men.

It's nothing, it's nothing. I'll be back soon, bloodsucker.

Mom, but how do you get there by subway?

No catch. There is no subway.

It is! How to get there?

I can show you, son, if you're listening to Mommy.

Bring my bag here.

Oh boy, so much bread!

It will last for a while.

There is one condensed milk and lard in the bottom. Half for me, half for you.

Mom, we should divide into three.

Yes!

Next time, go to the stage yourself, so you can split it into three.

Right now, I'm hungry and I want to wiggle like a wolf.

Okay, I get it.

But I'm like a combine harvester in the field!

Go wash your hands, combine!

In such weather, do not dry the laundry until next year.

Vova, I don't understand how you can wear that?

All asshole, from head to toe.

Haven't we taught him to wipe his ass?

Slava, come see what gave me bread for bread.

Mom, are you crazy?

What mermaids?

Normal.

I walk through the woods,

I hear that someone is sorry, he asks for bread.

Then I break the piece and put it on a willow bush.

I'm moving on - lo and behold, mushroom!

What fungus? It's poisonous!

See for yourself, it's glowing!

Listen, Mom, don't bring any shit home.

You don't live here alone, all right?

You're poisonous yourself, Slava!

My grandmother Stefania had already told me about these mushrooms.

They only grow once a hundred years and are called "Those who open the gate."

Tamara Denissevna, the scandal broke out yesterday after

when a university student had mysteriously died in the capital.

When he arrived in Kiev, his parents discovered that all the organs had been removed from his son:

damn, liver, heart and even eyeballs.

However, the parents were told that everything was perfectly legal.

According to the new law on organ transplantation

the consent of the family shall no longer be required for the removal of organs from the body.

The most important thing is that this can save someone else's life.

It is good that we are living in the Zone, away from all this progress.

Son, treat people politely, there is so much evil among them.

Aren't we human then?

Yes, we are human. But we are good, everyone else is bad.

Stalkers are also good people.

They are lost souls who come to the Zone,

to forget all your worries and troubles.

Better to be quiet and deal with your business.

Then a big accident will pass us by.

There is no escape from a major accident.

It will always find you when you need it.

There is no hiding it, you have to learn to live with it.

The bodies of Ukrainian citizens do not belong to them or their families...

I want to go to Kiev. I want to see the subway and McDonald's and the internet.

And I want Coca-Colat, too.

What do you have for Kiev?

There you will be treated like a pig, beaten and the organs taken out.

Eat garlic!

If they hear you're from Chernobyl, they'll probably leave you alone.

They think we're full of radiation.

But do you know how many people hunt for cheap organs?

Fly around the world and search everywhere.

God help you, daughter.

Why do they need them so much? If they don't eat them…

When approaching the use of human material in a sensible and practical way…

I'm going to Kiev anyway!

Gives a long time to step in.

Nobody picks you up in a car, you're dirty like a wandering bitch.

And you don't have the money either.

Listen to Grandma talk.

Listen, yes, Grandma is talking.

Because Grandma is scrubbing you clean and giving you money too.

Wow!

Mom, what's the matter ?!

Unfortunately, there are a lot of different people among us -

old, young, alcoholics, drug addicts and the sick,

and we can only use their organs in the local market.

Take the plate and get it in the room!

Come on! We eat in the room.

Why are you such a jerk ?! - Mamps…

I'll show you more mamp!

Where do you think you're going?

Pripyat!

Stalkers are coming again today!

You're not going anywhere!

I'm leaving! I'm going!

Do you want to bury me?

Don't you remember how those guys beat you up with a stone,

to take a closer look at your strange brain?

Hold on, parasite!

Or will I tell you about your father?

How was he abducted and now lives in slavery?

The stalkers told me all your stories are pure lies!

Almost all people are good!

Hold on!

Is that what you said ?!

You said yes!

Only bastards say that!

You can't talk to them anymore!

They said I was already a big man and I didn't have to listen to my mother anymore,

only women fuck!

Well, what the hell is this!

Vovka, where do you hope to find a woman around here?

I do not know! It has to be somewhere!

Son, I'm done for you!

Why?

I'm human too, and I want to fuck women,

not to do it alone as I do all the time!

Who do you love more?

Is it your mother or smelly stalkers?

The stalkers promised to bring me a bitch for my birthday

and I can fuck her instead of beating her all the time!

Hold on! Hold on!

If you get sick, I'll take your head off!

That's how it went. But much earlier.

What kind of women will she be? She's sick!

Normal women. And he's normal too.

Just not like the others.

Albert Einstein was a genius as a child, although many considered him mentally ill.

Einstein? What about Einstein?

But you, Mommy, take out the batteries.

Well…

Take it out.

Take it out, crack!

Did you take it out?

Well.

Do you see now? I also play without batteries.

Theory of relativity - this is Albert Einstein.

You don't care. You really don't care.

Your son's blood is in my hands.

But you're just full.

Your son will be killed, but you will be full from morning till night.

Only eat, drink, feed and sleep when your son is killed.

KRIMM, 1993

You're the same as your mole.

You climb into my brain and start chewing on the inside.

What should I do then?

Do you have to crack those junkies?

Or do they take off instead?

He is eight years old.

He needs your protection.

You gave birth to a bastard.

How can I protect him?

He's not a bastard!

Your son is!

I gave birth to a normal child for you!

Blame it on this nuclear accident!

Blame the children who beat his head to see his strange brain!

He's not a bastard!

He is your son!

Yes, my son.

I do not know…

Go and talk to their parents,

call the militia…

You already went to the militia.

You're a man, you're being listened to.

They don't listen to shit.

We have lived here for seven years.

Seven years!

Who are we to them?

There is no Slava, no Vova, no Petja, no Savchenko family.

What the hell is Savchenko?

We are just for them…

… Chorean people.

Let's get out of here.

Where? There's the same shit everywhere.

Let's go back to the Zone. To my mother…

I hear people are trying to go back there at all costs.

Some give bribes at the crossing point, others follow the animals but can.

What are we afraid of?

We have already received our radiation dose anyway.

You can't get any worse.

Oh you cheap hell!

I'll cut you off!

I do not love you.

Nerdy!

Or she doesn't love!

Give it back, it's mom's!

Sexless bastard!

You destroyed my life!

No need! Leave it!

Burn the ground, waste!

Cheater, don't leave me!

Petjake!

Please don't go, Petja!

See you

Mom!

What is?

Why is it so dark?

What?

Blind, can't see anything!

Remember the fooling around!

I can't cut down trees, it's too dark.

Open your eyes, it's not dark anymore!

Don't fuck my brains, you idiot!

The trees are nowhere to be stored.

But the break up, Vova.

What about a walk?

You walk when the time is right.

What?

The house never stops working.

Once the trees need to be cut down,

then wash the windows.

If I have to do all this, I won't be able to walk.

You're walking in the summer!

No more firewood to put anywhere!

Forgive me, brother, for killing you, but don't eat.

My grandmother may be wandering in the woods, but Vovake's mother must enslave, right?

What kind of kid are you?

Do you want to spoil my mood?

Tear down these trees and then make them braid as you can.

We'll wash the windows tomorrow.

Wow!

Look, Mom came back from a walk!

She must be terribly empty.

Talk-talk, I'm going back.

There are a lot of crazy berries. - Great.

Did you measure the radiation level?

Of course. 70.

Lots of wins.

As always.

Come on, come help Grandma.

Get the basket off your back.

What are you doing!

Not me, the dog did.

Open the basket.

And then take the barn and hang to dry to dry well.

Yeah, I'll hang up.

I went to the factory and felt the fear of God.

What are you doing at the factory?

The radiation level is the highest there, but you keep going there.

Good people have nothing to fear in such places.

Remember: when I'm gone, listen to Vova.

He can walk in the woods.

I have taught him where to go and where not to go.

What is worth taking and what is not.

Listen to him.

I don't want to listen to you anymore.

These are your visions of Satan!

Or that he has visions!

Where did the prophet come out!

I was counting on you, little girl. But God did not give you a gift.

Your whole generation is meaningless.

You will have the following opportunity:

take possession of the land and live on it.

But you can't. Your souls are doomed.

What do you want from me, huh?

What do you want? To leave everyone there and march with you along the bogs?

I don't want anything from you.

Very good.

I'm going to die soon.

God forbid.

I saw a mermaid.

What a mermaid, mom?

There is a saying that whoever meets a mermaid by day, not by night,

a scythe man will be visiting soon.

Are you kidding?

Why do you want to scare me?

By the way, I may soon die of fear.

You have to be ready for everything in this life!

You may try to escape, but fate will still find you.

Mom, did that chew bang your head?

Why should he whip me?

You said they used to throw stones at people.

Vova, see you are not evil.

They can be dangerous, but if you give them flowers,

weave a wreath or carry a white cloth, they will not touch you.

On the contrary, they will protect you from evil.

I'm the last one here to befriend them.

My grandmother Stefania taught me this and I will pass on this wisdom to you.

And you will be the last person to know our Polesya mermaids.

Do they live somewhere else?

Do not know. Probably still.

But you can only see them here.

The rest of the world lives in straight time, there are no days or nights,

everyone sleeps and works just as they please.

But our time is round: we wake up in the sun, we go to sleep in the moon.

We have spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Everything goes round and round.

But they are all tangled: Christmas in summer, strawberries in winter.

They all keep rushing somewhere, but they never get there.

But we have nowhere to hurry.

We have time for everything. Your seasons, your time.

We live at the beginning and the end of time.

How so?

In what sense how?

Why do we have it, but they have it differently?

I say unto you, Their time is in a straight line, but our own circle.

Clear! They are already there, but we are still here.

Honey, you're as smart as Einstein!

Who is that?

One talking catfish at a factory in a pond.

I want to sneak up and catch him.

Why?

To eat him and become wise.

Like Einstein?

Yes, just like Einstein.

I want to be smart too, but my mother says I'm stupid.

He himself is stupid, so to speak!

You're smart, you know? - I can.

But you also insult me ​​every day. - Me?

I may insult you, but I don't really think so.

You are smart, very smart!

And when we get to Einstein, we will eat and become the wisest in the world!

Mom, I also saw a maiden yesterday.

Don't make fun of your mom.

I'm not kidding.

When I went to the factory yesterday, he was sitting there, naked.

He even talked to me.

He said to me, "Tsi-tsi-tsi-tsi." And I said, "Tsi-tsi-tsi-tsi."

And then he said, "Tsi-tsi-tsi-tsi-tsii," and I said, "Tsi-tsi-tsi-tsi-tsii."

In short… I wanted to fuck her, but she left.

Wait! Hold on!

DEATH

Do you want me to look for him?

Where are you looking for him? He will come back himself.

You know, mom… What you said about our generation and what else…

I can't get it in my head.

I don't know if it's true or not, but take note

that I am very grateful to you for all that you have done.

I don't know what we would have done with Vova if it hadn't been for you.

Believe me, girl. There would have been nothing crazy about you.

We should be dead by now.

But we are still alive.

We are living through the winter and it will be summer soon.

I like this season.

So what is it?

Last winter, shooting was also heard from the cemetery.

You aimed at the letters on the tombstones, now they have holes in them.

Mom, whose turn is to cook tonight?

Yours, daughter.

Why mine?

Because I'm old.

But I'm sick.

I have an unknown illness.

I'm not as lazy as you.

Hey!

I am here! I'm here!

Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

Don't shoot! I'm human!

Yes to Yushchenko! Yes to Yushchenko!

Who cares about other people's worries?

Who needs it? Live as you can.

Your concern is your concern. Die if you can't wear it.

Why do you die? Vasja?

That's your concern, too. Your job is to protect the law.

There is no law.

There are only people, specific people.

And in this case, people I can't protect you from.

Deputies, prosecutors…

For them, the law is like a peer in the wind.

How so, Vasya? They shot my son.

I'm complaining to your bosses.

If necessary, I go on foot to Kiev.

I write a newspaper.

Go to the radio, let them know you're in trouble.

I wouldn't recommend.

You're only making it worse.

By law, you shouldn't be here, it's an official no-go zone.

I have closed my eyes so far, but there is a limit to everything.

By law, you don't exist.

Does not exist? But we are here.

Vasya, get at least a doctor.

No doctor will come to you.

He would then have to report the bullet wounds and run into enmity with the government.

I won't let anyone near you.

Slava, you've learned to be a nurse, heal your son.

I don't have any medicine. There is nothing.

And you, mole, are an awesome woman.

Then heal the boy. I can bring you the medicine you need.

But promise me you'll get the hell out of here.

So that you don't smell here for the winter.

Where do we go, Vasya?

Anywhere.

And these bastards will wander around with impunity, Vasya?

They just wanted to scare him.

He attacked them with a knife, they just defended themselves.

So, you were sent some food. There are good people.

Tell them what medications you need, they will be shipped as well.

What are you staring at, Slava?

Tell me what medications you need.

What is this?

What is this?

Vasya, what is it?

Where's the lard? And buckwheat?

You will find everything, mum, lard and buckwheat.

Everything is there.

What about lard?

For God's sake, Vasya, what kind of a person are you ?!

Condensed milk!

At least they had so much food in their heads that they could send us food.

Slava, it looks like they didn't really want to shoot Vovakes!

They are good people!

They were full when they shot.

Now regret it!

Do you believe in God, Vasya?

My wife and I go to church…

Every Sunday?

During the holidays too.

Great. Then pray with me.

How, Prisma-mommy? You have to pray in church.

No, you can pray anywhere. God sees everything.

But I'm on duty.

Me too. Look, get a candle.

Come on, Vasya!

You owe me. I am an old woman, I have no one to pray with.

Let's go to the room and pray together.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen. - Get on your knees!

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.

Almighty Lord, King of heaven.

You who create light and bring darkness.

You who created the world and everything in it.

Please look at us, your unfortunate subjects,

to their devastated orphans.

And to the wicked sinners who kill us.

Have mercy on us and protect us from these cursed enemies.

Turn your anger against these abominable children, and cast them out.

Raise your hand against the evildoers and their disciples, and break their bones.

Burn down those who gave birth in hell with a slow fire.

The wild beasts shall dig up their graves, and scatter their bones without scattering.

That those who hurt us would fall off the skin of the flesh…

For the fingers of these bastards to bleed…

And for sluts to use their skin to make their beds…

Vasja!

Leave it, Mom! No need!

No need, mom! No need!

Holy Mother of God…

Satan…

SACRIFICE

Fuck you! Get going!

Let the crows fuck you!

Where is this bastard?

Are you talking about yourself?

Go down, damn a waste of time.

The boy's condition is pretty shit.

True. Slava could not save her son.

He tried to hide him there.

Nor flee from fate.

Even here, trouble found us.

Well, Vasya, give your mom some smoke.

You, mom, were once a beautiful and strong woman.

Why did you come back, Vasya?

Forgot something?

Did you see the helicopters?

In the morning, a jeep was found at the crossroads, but there were no people inside.

The poachers must have been lost. We have big forests and bogs.

They are bored in the city, they come here to look for adventure.

It is a sport for them.

Is human hunting a sport?

People like them are not like you. Dirty, stupid creatures.

Damn them.

Anyway. But if anything happens to those who are missing,

it doesn't mean good to us. These are the same people.

Who shot Vova?

Understand?

The judge and his son are missing.

They came here just to fix this.

Do you hear me, old woman?

What do you smoke?

Marlboro Light.

Pask.

Don't ask me again. I was thinking wrong,

that maybe your boy got better and he imagined he was a partisan.

And followed in your footsteps, so to speak.

There have been no partisans here since the war.

I've forgotten about them for a long time.

But I'm not.

I hear you were called Miss Partisan and people were afraid of you.

And not in vain.

What are you afraid of?

I'm already an old hoe.

Scream.

But I went looking for archives.

Turns out you're a Soviet hero, mole.

What did you get the medal for?

Here you go.

"Consisting of ten soldiers and two officers

for the destruction of the Nazi fascist squad on October 28, 1942 in the village of Zvizdal. "

Well?

All right, in my own words.

It turns out that in the middle of the night they confronted twelve full-fledged men

and they smote them with the knife as swine.

Then why with a knife?

I stabbed some with a manure fork, others cut them with an ax.

Still, depending on the situation.

Even the shovel wore off.

Well, it must have been a rough night.

What did I have to do then?

They went in search of the forest partisans, they were our boys.

I have never heard of such heroism before, God forbid.

What did you do with the bodies?

With which ones?

With the Germans.

Or were there others?

No, only the Germans.

I cut it into pieces and threw the pieces in the swamp.

And now the situation is similar.

People come to look for you and disappear so no one can find you.

Leave it there, Vasya.

I'm old and sick, Vovake is fighting for his life.

Maybe they got lost on the road, full like pigs, and fell asleep somewhere.

Where is Slava?

Slava drove to town. Bring antibiotics to the boy.

The wound began to rot.

Forgive me, eideke, but this smell in the house suggests

that nothing will help this boy anymore.

I know, Vasja. Know.

Forgive me, mom. Forgive me if you can.

Only God forgives.

But I will never forgive.

So, Vasya.

Mom?

You came back soon, little girl.

I had 432 hryvnia with me, but a course of antibiotics costs 1000.

Did you come empty-handed then?

God, mother, what are you doing?

I am organizing a rite to heal Vova, a faithful servant of God.

Do you know that?

Or his funeral.

Because you came empty-handed.

You don't get money from the post office either. The government is withholding payments.

And if you don't have a doctor's referral, no one at the clinic will help you.

I ran through all of Chernobyl.

I don't know what else to do right now.

Then why did you come here?

Where can I go without money?

You won't find any money here either.

How is he?

Sleeps. Like a rock on the riverbed.

I gave him an injection and our boy is sleeping.

I want to see my son.

Still!

Mom, what is it?

If you enter a house empty-handed, take it bad!

Mom, I want to see my son.

Get out of my house and don't come back!

I hate you! I hate with all my heart!

Help me, mom! I do not know what to do.

You just think you don't know.

What can I do?

You can help yourself, Slava.

You have only one son, one child!

No more and no more, you know?

You have to suffer for the sake of the child! If necessary, kill, steal, die!

Glory!

The greatest sin is to do nothing.

Nothing!

Go and come back without medicine.

Go!

Wait!

Your mother hasn't blessed you yet.

Don't sell it for less than a thousand.

Here are 32 grams of silver and the lives of 12 Nazi Germans.

In life, Slava, you either sacrifice yourself or someone else.

Take.

Go, girl.

What's wrong?

Go.

Mother… - Go.

Forgive me, God.

Heaven and earth, water and fire,

open the gates from here to here!

Red water, water of life.

Black water, trouble and trouble.

Don't flow here, flow into the sea, flow into the great black ocean.

I'm not giving you my granddaughter Vova!

Eat, eat…

Red eyes, red tongue, red mouth… - Get out of here!

We will give you what belongs to you.

Forgive me, Heavenly Queen.

But it's better if you don't see it.

By the power of the ruler of the universe,

on behalf of all the old spirits…

I command you. I invite you!

I command you!

Hear thee, O woman, that wilt sow terrible death in our fields;

Listen to me, Iron Woman!

Listen to me…

Listen to me, Iron Woman...

Listen to me, Iron Woman.

O woman that soweth terrible death in our fields, shew thyself unto me.

LEND

Come to me, Iron Woman…

Shut up!

I'll feed you to my worries!

Come to me, Iron Woman…

Come to me, Iron Woman…

Listen to me, Iron Woman… Listen to me…

Are you there

Listen to my will.

Listen, death, Iron Woman.

Just as death rises from death,

so shall my sacrifice die.

Do not take an innocent, pure sacrifice on your breast.

Take the sacrifice I give you.

Leave Vova's body and soul alone.

Get up before my eyes.

May our covenant be eternal.

Heldeke… Vova!

Go to hell!

Vova? How did this happen?

Take me, I'm old!

Go to hell!

Take me, I'm old.

Later. Before I go to Kiev to fuck.

And then I'll pick you up.

Contact me now! I'm here now! Take me!

A little! Too small…

I have nothing more to give.

You're lying, you're lying! Do not lie!

What do you want from me?

Get embraced and get out of here!

Your spirit must get out of here.

Get out of here!

They're leaving, I'll send them away.

And you, you… - No. This is my country.

Mine! This is my country! - No, mine! Mine!

I was starving here!

The Germans survived, the radiation survived!

I live for you too, bastard!

Lick ass!

Grandmother…

So this secret subway line still exists!

Of course. And by the way, it runs right under our house.

Wow! And I went through the whole Zone looking for it.

And now you found it.

But where are we going?

Wherever.

We're going to Kiev before Mom comes back.

Let's drive yes. Let's take a look at city life.

After my disappearance, no one will find me again.

But my wife will get pregnant at last.

She soon runs to my gynecological brother for an abortion.

But my brother strikes and refuses.

And my wife will give birth to a son. Little Andrei.

My goal lives on in him.

I left my wife and a disabled child to live with three women for 4 years,

lick from morning to night, live in strangers' apartments,

in the dachas, basements and railway stations until I became quite homeless.

I escaped from my family, myself, Chernobyl.

In the zone, it seemed to me that I lived in the past,

in the cemetery of the present and the future.

In January, the day before Orthodox Christmas,

I spend the night in an electrical cabinet near the railroad.

And I'm dying of hypothermia.

I finally get the medicine and rush home,

I was afraid I was late.

When I get home, it's already morning. The time is 7.32.

My mother is lying on the floor, hairstyle on her head, beautifully dressed,

hands and feet nicely outstretched, candle burning between hands.

Vova is lying next to him.

But his arms and legs are in the position of trying to escape someone.

She's tired, dirty.

I fall to his side, I start kissing him, crying out his name:

"Vova, my son! Pojake! ”

But he's already cold.

I'm starting to wriggle around the yard like a snake cut in half.

I find a pot to eat and start eating.

My mother hasn't cooked in a long time.

I eat, I eat and I eat. I eat everything, until the last bit.

Suddenly…

22 seconds later I feel so good. I've never felt so good.

And I'm going to dance.

Dance and dance and dance…

And suddenly I get there

to the entrance of the secret metro line.

My heart stops, and I fall, in front of my head, into the cold depths.

So the secret subway line still exists!

Of course. And it runs right under our house.

Wow! And I went through the whole Zone looking for it!

Now you found it. Here we sit and drive.

But where are we going?

We're just driving.

Translated by Tiiu Marie Kraut Edited by Ines Rebane