The second book (the first was “War Has Not a Woman’s Face”) of Svetlana Alexievich’s famous artistic and documentary series “Voices of Utopia.” Memories of the Great Patriotic War by those who were 6-12 years old during the war - its most impartial and most unfortunate witnesses. A war seen through children's eyes is even more terrible than one captured through a woman's gaze. Alexievich’s books have nothing to do with that kind of literature where “the writer writes and the reader reads.” But it is in relation to her books that the question most often arises: do we need such a terrible truth? The writer herself answers this question: “A memoryless person is capable of giving birth only to evil and nothing else but evil.” “The Last Witnesses” is a feat of childhood memory.