1. 1985: Irina Ratushinskaya by Paula Gil

    Once, on the way to свобода, I fell.
    So deep my feet never reached the end
    So dark my eyes disappeared. I floated away from I.
    A sudden breeze reminds me of me.
    So I gather my scattered legs and with painful fingers hold on to me. свобода. I survive.



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