June 22

... is rather short, it fades and goes, just like individual memories do. Already, June 22 does not evoke such a powerful emotional response in my children’s souls as it does in mine. Probably, this is the way it should be. I guess time will pass, and Russians and their neighbours will regard June 22 as just a page on a tear-off calendar, a page like any other. But my generation will never see it like that.