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13th October.

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A yellow pattern of flowers
in the background of black.

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I inspect the photo,
think, is that a piece

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of wallpaper or a curtain?

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Like a winter tree which
has shed its leaves,

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an armchair in the
corner exposes its bones.

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And such a blue sky, a
sunny day, 13th October.

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Agrippina gives a plate of
mushrooms to her husband.

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He dies, leaving the
throne to her son Nero.

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Mahler gives his first concert.

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Margaret Thatcher
celebrates her birthday.

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Greenwich is made
Prime Meridian.

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Larissa and Nastia are
watching this day in history--

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important dates,
important people.

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See, Nastia,
sweetheart, study hard.

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And maybe one day, they'll
talk about you on TV.

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Larissa works in a shop.

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Nastia studies medicine.

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Mom, did you know the femur is
the longest bone in the human

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body and we contain up to
100,000 kilometers of blood

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vessels?

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There's my clever girl.

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Let's go have dinner.

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Missile wound to the
thorax with damage

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to internal organs,
lacerations to the thighs,

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a fractured skull.

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I read the account
of the injuries,

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think, what is it like
to see that longest

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bone in the body
with your own eyes

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and not on the mannequin in the
classroom but on your own leg?

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And for 20 whole
minutes, to hope

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that the ambulance will come and
save you and mom and everyone.

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But this is the firing zone.

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And the ambulance will not come.

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And 100,000 kilometers of
vessels suddenly redundant

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because what had flowed inside
them has completely run out.

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Mom, look, I'm on the news.

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Turns out my greatest
accomplishment

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was to die from shelling
on the International

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Day for Disaster Reduction.

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And an important day in history
for an important people.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I really don't like
to read this poem.

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You understand why.

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And it was written while
I was still in Minsk

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and working for the
Trilateral Contact

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Group, who tried to resolve
this conflict in Ukraine.

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At that time, it
was called conflict.

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Now, we can name it
with the real world.

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And I translated
lots of letters,

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documents, official documents.

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And this poem is
based on one of the--

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this thing I had to translate.

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And it said like
two civilian women

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were killed during the bombing.

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And it was just the
description of the injuries.

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And it was very inhumane.

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It was very
bureaucratic language.

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And it touched me so much.

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And I decided to find out
who were those people.

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And in internet, I managed
to find this information, how

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they were called, what
were their names, what

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did they do a bit, and these
last minutes of their life.

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So actually,
everything is truth.

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Nothing is invented.

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And the horrible black
humor about that,

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it's really 13th October.

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And 13th October is this
day of prevention of those

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catastrophes.

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