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I have a family, I work for them. Do you have any idea what it means to support a family? What could you possibly understand?

In 2021, Russian courts oversaw the trials of 783,000 people. Of these, exactly 2,190 were found innocent. Two thousand one hundred and ninety. The probability of somebody charged with a crime being exonerated was 0.28 percent.

"Me and her dad have the same birthday, March 28th. It's messed up!"

And I was left without a brother. I never visited his grave again. I simply couldn't.

I would ask Mama, if the USSR was such a good country, why didn’t you stand up for it? Mama would say, we were deceived. Yeltsin lied to us.