Description

The author of has been working as a psychologist with political prisoners and their relatives, including children, since 2021. The book contains the children’s memories collected during her practice about the repression that affected their family, as well as the dreams, daydreams and fairy tales they wrote to relive the trauma. Their experiences are compared with the stories of women and children repressed during the Soviet era: a separate section includes witnesses’ memories of the ALZHIR women’s camp. The author’s recommendations on how and for what purpose to build communication with children on political topics are also given.

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If you want to learn about what is happening in Belarus today, read this book.

The author interviews children, whose stories will take you to a wonderful world, it is much scarier than the adult world, it would seem that in this world everything should still be created with love, but a child of 7-10 years old – already knows what is beyond the capacity of even an adult heart.

They tell you how some people in black put daddy on the floor and beat him with a frying pan, how the boy waited a long time for his mom from prison, and when she came back, how many days he screamed at her. Crying and screaming.
You won’t read about this among the news on the computer. Children don’t let us get used to war, to Lukashism. They find their own words for it.

They are fearless and conscientious witnesses.

This work is talented and heartfelt.

I want to read more….

Sviatłana Alieksijevič