And here comes the continuation of “The Defector” - the story “The Condemned.” Similar to its predecessor - and not similar, just as eerily real in its phantasmagoric nature, but only stricter, drier, more documentary, so that sometimes it begins to seem: the author really was there, in the distant future, in the middle of the 21st century! And he returns To reality, only Kabakov’s inherent humor is subtle, bitter, barely perceptible, but unchanging. And giving hope. After all, the future has not yet taken place...