War is war, but nobody cancelled childhood… Guys and girls, what are they dream about in a few kilometers from war? Whom are they going to be? What about their rage on everything around? For what they are willing to not sleep at night? Informator.media begins to publish series of stories about frontline kids’ rules of life.
Dimka, 10 years. He was born in Pervomaisk and lives long in Solnechnoe (Zolotoe-1, frontline miner village in Luhansk region). He likes to sculpt from plasticine and doesn’t like when there is noisy and crowdy.
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I’m harmful, cunning and grouchy. And can you replace the last? Let’s get better dreamy. Harmful, cunning and dreamy.
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I remember myself from the conscious age. Somewhere… somewhere… somewhere from boiler room. First I was living there with my mother and father, then they quarreled.
I have not a real papa, he left us. A real dad will never leave you.
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I want to be a surgeon. How do you think, this has something criminal?
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Superheroes are only in cartoons. I don’t watch them. There are the real from life, as Roman Pavlovich Krapivin, who had made me the last operation.
He’s a real doctor. It’s very simple to detect a real doctor, you only need to come to him to cure.
Generally, all doctors are real except one. One student on duty made me an operation, maybe not a student, but novice. Intern.
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Everything that is for free poorly. Everyone knows about it. I’ll need a money for contract education, that’s why I don’t sign an acquittance for Nenya (eng. Nurse, but means his own grandma – ed.) that I’m absolutely independent and bear responsibility.
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It’s unfair when bubble gum costs 10 UAH (~$0.40) in Solnechnoe, but in Severodonetsk (administrative center of Luhansk region – ed.) it’s for 8.40 UAH (~$32). It turns out 1 cushion of chewing gum – 1 hryvnia. You can imagine.
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How Universe can fall on us? Earth can fall on Universe, but not opposite.
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If I was a headmaster of school, I’d make free pies for all high achievers. If you get excellent or good mark, would you like to show your diary and to get pie with potato or jam.
I ate seldom cheesecakes with apple. Excuse me, but prices are high enough. Not so long ago (before a war – ed.) I could buy a pie for 2.5 UAH (~$0.1) and tasted carbonated water and now try to get pie for 4 UAH (0.15).
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A friendship is a miracle. It was just an answer.
I don’t have a lot of friends. I don’t like to walk with them very much, because I’m ‘open’. I was permanently without communication. I’m used to not talking to anyone. I don’t want really to speak with people. I like to be with myself. I can solve the most complicated mathematical equation, but I don’t know what is friendship about. I’m thinking about it, but I can’t find an answer.
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I’m amazed by legions most of all in ancient Rome by their discipline.
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I’m thinking about adventures and dreaming to travel beyond the Arctic Circle. Wherever, but beyond the Arctic Circle. S, did you come from Murmansk? It’s like I was there with you. But, when you’ll be going to go to Murmansk, please, take me with you. I saw Northern Lights only in the pictures.
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I really need cache, I will keep there books and hide them from grandma.
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I don’t like when I’m forced to. If I like, I do it by myself. Why somebody needs to make somebody do something? Especially to go to children’s camp. I can’t go there anymore, I’m tired from their society.
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We live by rules to be afraid of everything. More precisely to be scared of ‘booms’. You know already for what we need to afraid of ‘booms’. Now, I already get used to it, of course. But I was afraid till I didn’t leave out from here. On January 2, 2015. It’s real horror when there is a boom in the center of the yard. And then I came back. I like to be in Zolotoe. There is always fine at home.
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To fight with fear, you need not to pay attention on it. And if it’s strong, don’t look on it. I was scared last time in 2015, when shells had been falling down in our yard. Everyone cried ‘lay down!’. But, maybe, I don’t want to meet dangerous, lying on the floor.
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If there will be a fire, I’ll take a tablet, computer all the stuff with myself. But, clearly thinking, you need special case to collect all of it. There must be all the documents, money and medicine. Animals and gadgets I’ll take in my hands.
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I have VK and FB accounts, but VK is better, because you can play games there.
I like strategy more, there you need to win. And you need to be a good strategist.
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Once again there is no water, so teeth cleaning is cancelled.
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Grandpa is growling, grandma is grumbling. Everyone is grousing, but I can’t argue with genetics.
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Keep calm but there is ditual services downstairs. Somebody dead. There is to nothing to be worried about. But if I washed well my hands after outdoor walking?
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The war will over certainly, when all soldiers lost their wish to fight.
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Am I vexing you? Or, maybe you can get a not quite a good impression from me.
We will get up tomorrow and begin to pillow, won’t we?
Listened and written by Nailya Ibragimova
If you want to help children who permanently live in the zone of facility, support the festival ‘Zolote Fest’ which will happen on August 5 and 6 in the frontline city Zolote, Luhansk region.
The Festival is organized by local volunteers and children of Zolote under the support of ‘Vostok-SOS’ charitable foundation.
Locations:
Rope Town
Street art
Trampoline
The sculpture of clay and petrikovskaya painting
Field kitchen
Personal consultations of psychologists
Volleyball
Slacklin
Cartoons in the open air
Music scene
EUR:
Сharitable organization”Charity Foundation “East-SOS“
Account : 26007455028483, ОТP BANK, Bank code (MFO) 300528,
SWIFT код OТPVUAUK,
reference number of the organisation: 39764400,
correspondent bank: Commerzbahk AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
№ 400 8880064 01, SWIFT : COBA DE FF
or
correspondent bank: Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
№ 100 947 4974 0000, SWIFT : DEUT DE FF
purpose of payment: charitable contributions
USD:
Сharitable organization”Charity Foundation “East-SOS“
Account : 26007455028483, ОТP BANK, Bank code (MFO) 300528,
SWIFT код OТPVUAUK,
reference number of the organisation: 39764400,
correspondent bank: Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, 60 Wall Street New York, NY
10005,USA
№ 04448427
SWIFT: BKTRUS33
purpose of payment: charitable contributions