“I remember how Lenin died ...” 2012

Director: Mykola Homanyuk Playwright: Mykola Homanyuk Stories of individual lives are woven into life of the generation of those who vaguely remember how Lenin died, which means that these people also remember the War. Some of them fought, some were working in the rear, others were in a POW camps, some stayed in the occupied territory. But if for some the victory brought the return home and love, for others it was a beginning of a new trial. “The State needed cheap labor. To work in the north they had to recruit, to pay more money, hostels were necessary, so they decided to use inmates. They just picked people up, drove them to the north, drove four sticks in the ground and here you go: live and build. So, we lived in tents in the north in Yakutia. There was a stove so legs were in warmth, but hair froze to the tent”.

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The performance is created under support of the Foundation “Memory. Responsibility. Future” (EVZ, Germany)