All his life, the poet Mikhail Sopin spoke on behalf of the war generation of children - those who were first crippled by the war, and then finished off by the state system. Those who “didn’t crawl, fell, didn’t breathe”, who shouldn’t have survived... We hope that Mikhail Sopin’s poems will be the best gift for everyone who bought this charity edition of the book to help the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. Photographs by Ernst Haas were used in the design , Yan Byrtus, Miro Gregor, Mikhail Karachev, Andrey Kokov, Alexey Kolosov, Vlado Rybichka, Lyubim Kholmogorov, Yuri Chernov, from the archives.