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Suddenly this merry chorus of voices is invaded by a sound that resembles the screeching of car brakes that they consider music.

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We are growing suspicious.

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It turns out that these youngsters who loiter in shady alleyways behind the GUM instead of going to school

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are here to peddle a product of their own making.

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Foxtrot on x-ray plates that, instead of intricate anatomic details, capture a crude image of their intellectual poverty.

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Listen, Zhenya Garkun, what does the world look like to you through the tiny hole of x-ray rock-n-roll?

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It's a small, cramped world of shadows exchanging furtive looks.

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Shadows whose nickname is fartsovshiki (smugglers) selling old junk with fancy foreign labels.

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They are little more than shadows even though they have names, like Gennady Baranov.

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And you, Gena, do you really believe that this is life?

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- I don't actually live, I'm more like waiting for something.
- And what exactly are you waiting for?

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Do you expect hydroelectric dams to erect themselves or the desert to flourish without your efforts?

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But when your peers perform miracles, you won't be able to stand by them.

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- Ah, yes, by the way: when I was a Young Pioneer,

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back in primary school, I used to pick wheat heads.

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Wheat heads? And all your knowledge of bread is limited to a bun?

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And your mate Sasha Kriukov twice went to reap the harvest in the Altai.

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Go on, ask him about the true price of the bread that you eat.

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What other shadows are lurking in this suffocating world?

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Her name is Lyudmila, but she prefers a monicker.
In restaurants where she spends her days and nights she is called out: "Hey, Sophie!"

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- But how is that possible? You don't even have a job, but you frequent restaurants, wear fancy clothes.

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- Don't you feel sorry for yourself?
Do you want to steal from yourself, Lyusia?

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Do you want to forfeit the simple joys of human life? The friendship of factory folk?

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The nervous tremor before an exam in a college? The loving stare of your husband' eyes?

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Or the happy mumbling of that charming tot, Seriozha? And Nina wants you to know all this.

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Who's that crawling about next to you?

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Who's that other shadow for whom all the values of the world mean little more than money?

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Viktor Pakhomov, perpetually tipsy and unruly.

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Where is all that money coming from?
- I'm given tips every day.
- Ah, are you really?

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- And you take them?
- Yes, I do. 
- Splendid. So that's your income.

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That's life in the world of shadows, Garkun.

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But do you see that we want these shadows to become human beings?

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So don't bend over, Garkun. Look at the real big world that is breathing around you!

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A world where people wake up to new inventions.

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A world where cities are built and trees planted.

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A world where newspapers tell of our friends' glory.

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A world where people buy flowers for their loved ones

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and debate Botvinnik's latest game.

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Our world is a place where a person can in his final days say: "I did it all for the people".

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"And that is why this world exists for me".

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It is a great luck to live your life as a human being and not turn into an empty shadow.

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This is our message to those who are beginning their lives in murky alleyways.

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And it doesn't matter what exactly a shadow is mimicking: a peddler of foreign rags

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or a priest of rock-n-roll.

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Or an overgrown idler.

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We, the people, make no distinction in shaming them.

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TITLE: Shadows on a sidewalk

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Because we are human beings and we have human emotions.

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We can laugh and marvel.

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Be outraged and uncompromising.

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We can despise and condemn.

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We don't want foul shadows to blemish our sidewalks.

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All of us who walk our streets, who live in our city,

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no matter if one wears a volunteer's armband or not.

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And let our sidewalks be only adorned with figured shadows of tree leaves

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that do not hide the world's beauty from us.

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THE END