The letter of 18-year-old Olya was published in the newspaper "Land of Berdichevskaya". There are thousands of young people like this girl in the post-Soviet space.
They are in every village, in every smallest provincial town. A crippled generation destroyed by demon-cratic power and indifference of those around.
“Dear editors, I am writing to you because I hope that with your help I can help save someone's life. Please print my letter. I really need people of the older generation to read it, especially those who can change something in this world. Let my letter be read and the young people think. I wish them not to repeat other people's mistakes. I am 18 years old. My name is Olga. I don't give my surname.
For two years now, I have been sick with AIDS. I'm not alone in the hospital, here I have the same girlfriends and friends. Now I look at everything differently than before. I want to ask all adults, and especially those who have power: “Why did you, adults, throw us, your children, under the“tank”? Why crumpled with sex, pornography, drugs? You are to blame for our deaths!"
You wanted "relaxedness", "relaxation", "freedom". You preach loose connections, advertise fagot artists. You inspire us that everyone lives this way! And we are dying! We will not have love, we will not have families, we will not have children. Do you understand what is happening to us, the generation that came after you? We are still alive, but we are no longer there. We were deprived of our childhood, our future was taken away.
When I meet elderly people on the street, I look at old people and old women, an incomprehensible feeling seizes me. It contains resentment, anger, hopelessness, fear, envy, powerlessness and the inability to correct or change anything. Now you have lived to be 60, 70, 80 years old and more, but we will not live! We will die young! Why? For what? Why did you not teach us such concepts as “shame”, “shame”, “morality”, “love”, “chastity”?
Four of my friends, yesterday's schoolchildren, have died. Young people lie in the morgues. We are already burying each other … Why did you impose your "safe sex" on us? It would be better for us to plow the virgin lands, drive tractors, than to die of AIDS in foreign cars. You have made every effort to corrupt and corrupt us, ringing in all the media about "this" and about the "modern way of life."
You were cunning in schools, “opening” our eyes, how good it is to “do this” not in basements, but “in a civilized manner”, persuaded us to “be liberated”, discard “false shame,” presented films and brochures. And no one will judge you for us. You didn't kill anyone with your own hands. Such rapists are not judged now, they are encouraged, elected to power. And you continue to do this with other children who are younger than us.
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Stop! How grateful I would now be to someone who would snatch the cigarette out of my hands, who would whip the nettles in the back seat, when I could still be saved, "pulled out from under the tank." Help those who care to stop what is happening throughout the country. Help stop the madness. It is urgently necessary to introduce censorship in the media, prohibiting all kinds of corrupting talk shows, porn films, advertising of alcoholic drinks and cigarettes. We are dying, and so are you.
Who is there on the "tank"? Drunk, “gay,” “free” from shame and responsibility ?!
And we were under them … We passed. All!"
