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she adds a bit more] We'll wait in Chernobyl. This is our 
home now. Chernobyl is our home, our motherland. [She 
smiles suddenly.] The birds here are the same as everywhere. 
And there's still a Lenin statue. [ When we're already at the 
gate, saying goodbye, she says some more.] Early one morning 
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the neighbors are hammering away on the house, taking 
the boards off the windows. I see a woman. I say, "Where 
are you from?" "From Chechnya." She doesn't say anything 
more, just starts crying . . . 
People ask me, they're surprised, they don't understand. 
"Why are you killing your children?" Oh, God, where do you 
find the strength to meet the things that the next day is going to 
bring? I'm not killing them, I'm saving them. Here I am, forty 
years old and completely gray. And they're surprised. They don't 
understand. They say: "Would you bring your kids to a place 
where there was cholera or the plague?" But that's the plague 
and that's cholera. This fear that they have here in Chernobyl, 
I don't know about it. It's not part of my memory.