"Translation" " Michael Lockshin.." "Alex [HUN] subtitled for serd Revised by mNstr" "AN UNDERGROUND REFRIGERATOR." "INTERIOR." "NIGHTTIME." "Yeah, see." "And those eighteen tons over there are even '65." "I don't give a damn if they're '41." "Well!" "Where is he?" "Damn, it's past two already" "Valya, how long are you gonna fuck around, ha?" "Nosirev!" "Nosirev!" "The chunks are.., you know.." "so I boiled them a bit." "It's the right smell." "Ok, tomorrow at nine the whole batch." "And you take care of the loading." "What about those eighteen?" "You want them?" "Not now." "What about that Kantemir ground meat?" "It's minus twenty eight down there." "I don't work with ground meat." "I've told you a hundred times already." "It's minus twenty eight down there, everything will be hunky dory, nothing ever it was all packaged back in '92." "I don't work with ground meat." "Eight years old." "Cutlet meat with powder." "In tin cans." "Plus, they transport it." "What did you say?" "I don't work with ground meat!" "So he says, take six cans, pour water, stick a newspaper in, and put them inside." "And the moisture problem will be solved." "Shit head!" "The curves will get all rusty." "And - czin!" "Put varnish on the pegs." "And you'll get church bells instead of a piano." "Glass will crack, ha?" "!" "Hey what about that Blutner?" "Semi-lousy." "The basses are off." "Se-e-emi lo-ousy, sem-i-i I-o-o-ousy." "How much is it?" "Se-e-emi lo-ousy, sem-i-i I-o-o-ousy." "How much is it?" "One and a half." "One-and-a-ha-a-If." "One-and-a-ha-a-a-alf." "Is he cr-a-azy or something?" "Ma-y-y-y-be" "And whe-e-e-re's my tuning fork?" "Who-the-fu-u-u-ck kno-o-ws." "He-e-ere 'tis." "That's all!" "That's all!" "That's all!" "The m-e-ytro is closed." "I don't use the metro-o-o-o." "What, are you finished already?" "Yup." "Why?" "It's nothing" "Where?" "In the vase." "Which one?" ""Gagarin. "" "Marina." "What?" "What's with you?" "Nothing." "I'll tell Paravazik." "Fuck off." "So now should we" "What goes down better at three in the morning:" "vodka or blood?" "After midnight I drink beer." "So what do you want?" "How about" "I'll start with a vodka." "And then we'll see." "Absolut, Smirnov, our Smirnov, Kristall?" "Do you have Moscovskaya?" "Of course." "How much do you want?" "A shot." "And a tomato juice." "I'll have a beer." "What's that you have in the tap?" "Guesser, Baltika" "Baltika will do." "What kind of fucking asshole do you have to be to hit a dog in the middle of the night!" "Why?" "What, why?" "Well it's more likely for it to happen at night than during the day." "Christ, the city's empty!" "And he doesn't even look." "Idiot." "People are such assholes" "So are dogs." "They throw themselves under cars." "Yeah, come on!" "From a dog's life or something?" "From man's." "A dog's life is quite comfortable." "What do you want to drink?" "White Russian." "I'm out of cream." "Ah, come on." "A dog was hit outside and they're out of cream in the bar." "Anything else, maybe?" "What else You got any curacao?" "Yes." "Make it half and half with vodka." "With lots of ice." "You know, it's not so simple with dogs." "A friend of mine hit two dogs." "And each time something happened to him afterwards, you know, some things," "His lover left him." "And something with his teeth." "And then on some other occasion, he hit one on Profsoyuznaya when he was drunk." "Killed him." "And right away had a lucky deal with an apartment." "With good European furniture." "Cheap?" "Very." "Dogs are closer to God." "Are you a believer?" "No." "I haven't had a curacao in a while." "I wish everything could look so queer." "Everyone'd be gay than." "Nowadays they're everywhere, even where the sun never shines." "Have you tried curacao with tequila?" "Nope, is it good?" "A killer." "But I don't like it." "Why do you suggest it then?" "Women like it." "Women in general are into tequila nowadays." "Really?" "Two women I know." "One never used to drink." "Now as soon as I come over - she's there with salt, cutting a lemon." "The other, drinks a bottle of tequila every night together with her husband." "Every single night!" "Domestic alcoholism." "I can't stand tequila." "Ain't it from cactuses?" "Reminds me of aloe!" "My grandma used to use it on me for arthritis." "Shit!" "Did it help?" "Nope." "As soon as February came - white glop white glop" "White?" "Like cream?" "Sweeter" "Damn." "Forgot the cigarettes there." "I look around do you have some?" "some where..." "Oh, these aren't light?" "nop" "Well, ok" "Sese." "What - sese?" "That's "thank you" in Chinese." "You know Chinese?" "Christ, no!" "Why not?" "It'd blow my roof off." "Smart Russians are starting to learn it." "Why?" "China - is the future." "You think so?" "I'm sure of it." "You know what the work force is in China?" "nu?" "600 million men 600 million, unbelievable are you sure about it?" "100%" "What about you, do you work in the statistics institute or something?" "Worse than that." "Where?" "In the administration of the president." "And what do you do there?" "Well, what do you do in any administration?" "Administrate." "Is it inside the Kremlin?" "Our department is on Lubynaka." "In the FSB building." "Cool." "And what I meant, what is your job there?" "Security?" "The president's administration isn't responsible for security." "The department I work in is responsible for delivering mineral water to the Kremlin." "Okay." "It's time for a grappa." "Hey chief!" "I hope you're not out of grappa, are you?" "I have grappa." "And I'll take another beer." "So what kind of water goes to the Kremlin?" "It varies." "From Evian to Borgomi." "What kind does the president drink?" "The president has special spring water delivered to him." "From where?" "From the source of the Volga." "In the Tverskaya region." "And what's there?" "That's where the Volga starts." "There's a well right there, and a spring gushes up, straight from it." "The source of the great Russian river." "Interesting." "Does the water taste good?" "Yes." "The water is nice, smooth." "And you ship all this?" "Well, not me personally." "I just control the process." "And do you see the president often?" "About twice a month." "Hey, tell me, is he a drinker?" "Practically not." "A glass of French wine sometimes, you know." ""Chateau de Latour. "" "And a glass of champagne at ceremonies." "But his wife, really, she likes to drink." "Really?" "What?" "Champagne." "French?" "Of course." "Not Russian." "She really drinks a lot?" "About" "A couple of bottles a day." "That's not really a lot?" "A couple of bottles of champagne!" "Now vodka would be a different story." "A Russian woman should easily be able to drink a liter of vodka." "Right!" "My friend can drink one alone." "And afterwards go walk the catwalk." "She is a model?" "Yup." "Do you also walk the catwalk?" "No." "I'm in a different business." "Hm, interesting, what kind?" "Advertising." "And what do you advertise?" "Different stuff." "Well right now there's this Japanese device." "Home appliance?" "No it's this device" "Can I have another cigarette please" "This new generation device for" "improving one's health while one working." "Something like an air ionizer?" "Almost." "But a totally new generation." "You hook it up to the socket in the office and in a few minutes it generates this field,these waves, and it works very nicely right away." "People don't get tired, are always on the go, there's no more irritation, and our usual disgust goes away." "I truthfully didn't believe it at first - like, you know, work is work:" "yesterday I advertised air conditioners, today this device." "And then I took one to try for myself at home." "How was it?" "Well..." "Really a different thing!" "I usually have troubles waking up in the morning.." "I have to work so hard all day long, go, sign, speak..." "And here - such pleasant mood!" "Japanese all the same are able to do things." "What's it called?" "In Japanese it's called "Chao van. "" ""Chao van?"" "Yes." "That's the name of a Japanese bird." "You know, one they worship." "A crane or something?" "No, it's a different bird there's a picture of it on the device" " it's bluish with a reddish tail." "It lives up in their forests, or mountains." "Only in Japan." "And sings only after midnight." "Like an owl?" "No." "And when it sings, all Japanese start to feel much better." "Fall asleep?" "No, like just in general." "They even cry." "From joy." "While sleeping?" ""Chao van. " Never heard of it." "Have you sold a lot of these devices?" "Um, close to one and a half thousand." "Maybe you could offer us one?" "I'd be pleased to." "Just leave your phone number." "Well, you won't be able to get through to us." "At Lubyanka." "It'd be better if you gave me your contacts." "Wait a second." "Ugh, damn, left my cards in the office as usual." "Let me leave you my telephone number." "Call from nine to five." "Marina Borisovna." "When I'm not away, I'm always in my office." "Or, well, leave a message with the secretary." "Thanks." "You want another drink?" "Yup." "Only something else." "Champagne?" "Ok." "Chief, hey chief, wake up." "I'm not sleeping." "So cheers!" "Marina Borisovna." "Cheers what's your?" "Oleg Nikolayevich" "And you, young man?" "Just Vladimir." "Well than Oleg Nikolayevich and just Vladimir, let us tank up!" "Or rather - tune up." "Not like in the army, though." "No, musically." "You a musician?" "Do I look like one?" "Yup." "Nope." "Way off." "An organic chemist." "Uuu, scary!" "I school I just hated chemistry!" "Formulas" "Everyman to his own." "And you, well, are in a chemical institute or industry?" "I work in a top secret department." "In a "mail box" as they used to say." "For the war?" "Nooo, not for the war." "Why's it closed up than, this box?" "It's hard to explain" "Inventions, or something?" "There's nothing left to invent in this business." "In organic chemistry?" "No." "In genetic engineering." "O, you're a genetic engineer?" "A stylish profession." "THE profession." "So what do you do there?" "Breed sheep?" "That too." "What else?" "Cows?" "Cattle?" "Aha, yeah, that too." "Nooo, come on?" "People too?" "Of course." "What do you mean?" "That's banned." "There was some international conference not long ago." "And they banned cloning human beings." "You're forgetting what country we are living in." "What is banned there is allowed here." "And did it work out with a human?" "Yes." "Long ago." "What?" "How long?" "What did has some boy-clone already been grown?" "Not a boy anymore." "Or even a teen." "What - a guy?" "I mean an adult?" "Yeah." "Sure enough." "The oldest is now forty four years old." "Hey, come on, man, that's bullshit!" "Forty four!" "When was he cloned then?" "Back in Khrushyov's time?" "The first human cloning experiments began in 1947." "Professors Bronstein, Lukin." "Doctor Nesmeyanov." "The first success." "The first Stalin award in genetics." "Stalin's time?" "Why, genetics was being outlawed back then." "Outlawed officially." "While unofficially people went on with their work." "There were two secret government projects:" "the atomic bomb and cloning." "Only cloning - that's a western word." "But then, and, well, in general we, here call it doubling." "The objects are doubles." "We don't use the word "clone" in our institute." "But where is this institute?" "Or is that a secret?" "There are no secrets nowadays." "Ever been on Volgina street?" "Where's that?" "Somewhere near Belyayevo, right?" "I drove by there once." "Shemyakin's institute of organic chemistry is down there." "And inside it there is the laboratory where I work." "And what, they grow there, these.." ".. people doubles?" "No, we just have a laboratory there." "Where we lay the genes." "The objects grow in incubators." "Yeah?" "So where are these incubators?" "There are quite a few." "How many?" "I can't say for sure, but when I started at this laboratory six years ago there were about forty." "Forty?" "Yes." "Twelve incubators in Moscow." "Four near our lab down in south-west Moscow." "And about another eight in the suburbs." "But umm I don't understand anything!" "What, do people, like grow in them?" "No, no." "We only have a laboratory, we are just merging geneticaly." "The people grow up in society." "Kindergarten, orphanages." "That can't fucking be!" "Like, where the hell do these clones go?" "Like they go to the army or something?" "The same as those that are born the usual way." "Different places." "There are a few special programs." "Which are overseen by special departments." "Which departments?" "FSB, the defense ministry." "So like, how many clones are there already?" "In our laboratory?" "No, I mean in general?" "How many've been done?" "It's hard to say." "You see my professor - he's been in this project since 1968." "He says that then throughout the Union there were about six thousand healthy doubles and about nineteen thousand sick ones." "But today Jesus, I couldn't even tell you." "So like you're trying to say that come on that's total shit!" "That the doubles are among us?" "Why doesn't anybody know about it then?" "Nobody talks about it?" "In the president's administration nobody's ever said anything!" "Not once!" "There have been publications." "A number of them." "I'm sure that there have been many discussions in your administration." "Just you didn't pay any attention to them." "I would have paid plenty attention to something like that." "That's just it, you didn't." "There was a big article about six months ago in MK called the Village of Twins." "It described a village somewhere in Mordovia that's full of sick twins." "Twins, Triplets, Quadruplets." "and all of them are sick" "And they all have some kind of internal disease." "So what?" "Twins - are a normal thing." "Yeah, and, like diseases are everywhere" "One of the first soviet incubators" " Soyuz 4, is located about four kilometers from this village." "These twins... are simply production waste." "The first soviet doubles." "Volodya!" "Sure, it's past midnight, the perfect time for scary stories and everything." "How about I tell you how I once saw a UFO." "Near Smolensk, after the army draft." "We were going to take a leak, excuse me, wanted to pee hanging above the forest." "Bluish-green!" "I swear we saw it." "three of us saw it" "And the guys at the post said they did too!" "And I once saw a ghost." "In St. Pete." "I got so scared." "Yes, sure," "I wouldn't want to push this at all, if this is daunting." "Just Marina asked me where I work and I answered truthfully." "Forget it." "Could you get me something a little stronger?" "Right!" "Before midnight lower the degree before sunrise - raise it." "How do you know?" "A lot of boozing in your line of work?" "You know, we like to relax." "Work is like a tornado, you have to dodge it right and left." "But then - there's enough for some firewater." "The whole firm relaxed together?" "Yup." "Don't you?" "Or is it prohibited there?" "No, not really, nobody bans it, Just not in groups." "It's not really our way." "Everyone there has his own friends." "Just two or three of us go to our favorite places." "Like where?" "Kempinsky, John's, sometimes" " Pushkin." "Hey, Volodya, what about you guys?" "I can't really recall any pubs around Belyayevo." "Or you just knock back a few in your lab?" "Rectified." "With the clones." "Yeah." "I've had a few drinks with them." "But not in the lab." "In the slums." "Where?" "In the Krasnoyarsk slum." "It's this place, where well, it's kinda hard to explain." "Like a transit prison." "Yeah, but let's go on to something else." "That's enough." "Forget it." "Hey chief, another shot of moskovskaya and the verdict." "I'll also take one of those." "and afterwards I go home." "Volodya, please tell us." "Yeah, do what the girl asks." "Ohh, you won't believe this, but it's really not interesting to be clown." "Come on, so tell us about that transit." "Let's put this down first." "To accordance." "What?" "You know, so everyone lives according to his designated place on earth." "That's a good toast." "So you see, there are three types of doubles:" "M- type, F-type and type-4, or simply fours." "The first M-type doubling was conducted by the Germans in 1937, M-type cloning and stolen by the NKVD." "Then professor Bronstein modernized it by adding the domino principle which allowed the paired chromosome to connect to the unpaired one while being substituted." "That was able to raise one double" "F- type doubling." "And then in sixty eight, the now deceased Viktor Petrovich Golosov discovered type-4 doubling." "That's when four chromosome-complexes are stuffed into one cell." "And consequently four doubles develop simultaneously." "You know, quadruplets." "And the most amazing thing is that it was number four that produced the least errors and the optimal survival rate." "They tried doubling by three, by five, seven, eight, they even made double-12." "But 4- turned out to be the ideal number." "And the most amazing thing is that this number was never sacred in any culture history." "Not 3 or 5 or 7 or 12. 4!" "This is the number that the world rests on." "Not 3." "But 4!" "And this really is the heart of the matter of four corners." "Yeah like four table legs." "And around three years ago..." "I was sent on a trip to the famous Krasnodar slum." "It's a cool place." "The things that happen there!" "It was built by Beria" "This was the first incubator in the USSR" "So I did what I had to do." "And, because I was off that night," "I went to some guy from the department of Initial Correction" "He asked what I was going to do this night nearest city 35km away, and he says let's go have a drink with the quartets." "Why not, I say." "So we took a couple of liters of vodka, some canned food, and went there." "But you see the territory, I don't know, must be like half of Moscow." "So we come to this large building where only fours live." "So we come to this large building where only fours live." "Fours, you mean - quadruplets?" "and all twins?" "Yeah, fours." "And there's about three hundred of them there." "Shabby walls, bricks sticking out of walls." "And they are wearing tatter clothing, dirty" "So he took me right away to area 32, filled with sixteen-year-old girls." "And all of them times four, I mean in fours." "So we come to these girls, and they staring at us we started to pour vodka in glasses all come by four, we drink," "and suddenly, the first one that also had the biggest boobs there were also four of her, grabbed me by my cloth, tears them apart and falls on me" "suddenly security comes and says: what are you doing up here?" ", are you fucked up?" "do you realize it?" "So, we ware kicked out of there" "I almost got fired it's not even close to the ufo, that a story." "that's it," "There was another case not in the Krasnoyask slum, it was in Pushkensk, it..." "I arrived there with one guy,to be honest, we didn't come to drink there but to work" "we went to one of the buildings, where only niggers lived and all by 4, all of them were man and if you're working in the Institute for 5 years you have to do this test:" "you are put alone into this nigger's house and all the twins and niggers, eventually they must fuck you." "That's all, shut the fuck up!" "How much?" "take it all" "Jesus, what assholes work in the president's administration." "What, did you have a fight?" "It's just late." "Everyone wants to sleep." "Except me." "220 and 150" "Aha 200..." "Ouch my leg fell asleep again." "Do you want to come along with me?" "Where?" "We'll have a good time there." "How's that?" "Like this." "Tomorrow would be better." "Let's go now." "Come on." "Tomorrow, I can't now." "I can't tomorrow." "Hey, at least, like, finish telling what you were saying." "Volodya" "About what?" "The end of the story." "About those fours." "What'd you do there with them?" "I was joking." "You made it up?" "Yes." "Everything?" "Everything." "From beginning to end." "I'm a piano tuner." "Fuck!" "Did you hear that?" "What?" "All that boloney." "Siberia or something?" "He's a hunter?" "You too." "Go on." "Sleep." "Talented people, dammit." "Professor Bronstein!" "Uuu, a-a-a-a!" "Just bring me some mineral water and one of your main courses." "we have a large selection of main courses." "Then, how about your specialty." "Our specialty dish is young round piglet with apple radish." "it's superb." "What kind of piglet?" "Round." "Ground up or something?" "No, that's the breed." "What breed?" "Well round piglet." "What are they, overfed?" "They're perfectly round." "What do you mean round?" "A piggy can't be round." "What do you do?" "Do you pump them up with air or something?" "No, no." "They're born that way." "Where?" "State breeding farm Kommunarka." "They've been supplying us with round piglet for the last two years." "Hey, buddy, listen, I've been selling meat for seven years and have never heard of round piglet." "Well, go to the kitchen and take a look." "Sasha, this gentleman here wants to look at the piglet." "This is the musicians room." "I'm a musician." "The musicians have already left." "Obviously, not everyone." "You're the drummer?" "Once I was a pianist." "And I once was a person." "Who are you now?" "Only God knows sometimes I wake up in the morning, look at myself in the mirror and think:" "Who is this?" "What is this?" "What, you don't like what you see?" "That's not the point - if I like it or not." "People can have strange tastes" "The point is that - there's no name." "Who has no name?" "The reflection?" "The person." "This here is a turtle." "And this is glass." "And this is a floor." "And they will always, forever be a turtle, glass and a floor." "Nothing else." "They've already been made." "Finished." "But we - not yet." "And we could easily become anything or anyone else." "That's why a person doesn't yet have a name." "I have one, I'm Volodya." "So what?" "In a measly half an hour you could become a stray dog." "Or a rag, that a nice girl uses to wipe her feet on." "Or just a piece of live meat." "Not true." "There's always a choice." "You can decide not to turn into a dog." "Or a rag." "There's always a little window." "that you can jump out of." "Suicide?" "Yes." "But that's a palliative." "A what?" "You know, a forced move." "So What?" "In this game, forced moves are not acceptable." "Hello." "Senior-sergeant Khramtsov here, 56th department." "Could you show us your passport please?" "Damn when will winter end?" "When spring starts." "You'll have to come along with us." "What's the problem?" "what the matter?" "sit" "Hey, Sule and Marinka:" "go to Leninsky 65, entrance 4, apartment 72." "His name's Valera." "He'll be waiting, starting 9 p. m." "Raya, don't go to Bogdan's tomorrow, he prefers Thursday." "A little later, like after eleven." "Girls, answer up, I can't get in downstairs." "The lock got frozen again." "Marina Kravchenko, I'm the conductor of train number one hundred sixty two, see, like, and, I'm at the station now, just got here, and, Malyi Okot asked me to tell you that, um, Zoya died." "All these damn buildings" "Honey, want some vodka?" "I'm not allowed." "Where are you going?" "To the polygon." "Why, are you serving in the army?" "no, my narcologist recommended it, it replaces shooting up, do you know... that bazooka gets you higher than heroin." "Just wham!" " a few grenades - and you don't even care if a needle is nearby." "All these damn buildings" "Want some vodka?" "I'm not allowed." "Where you're going?" "To the polygon." "What for?" "to shoot with the bazooka you are serving in the army?" "No, My psychiatrist recommended it." "It's good for the head." "Calms the nervous system." "Against suicide." "Just wham!" " a few grenades - and you want to live." "Misha, I'm home!" "Hello, dear." "Misha, I'm getting tired of telling you you don't have to wash the garbage can every day." "son, you can't even imagine the might of modern-day microbes." "Everything's ready." "It's your favorites today - split-pea soup, croutons," "cutlets with potatoes in mushroom sauce and kissel." "Are the cutlets steamed?" "Son, don't torture me." "Hey Mish I well this is fucked-up that's all yum" "I'm calling an ambulance." "This can't go on anymore." "I'll make you move out, Mish mmm" "I cant live with you anymore, Misha, I cant!" "There is no way!" "Don't torture me, son." "I'm calling an ambulance." "That's it." "Don't torture me, don't torture me" "It's very healthy" "I dont have any patience for you, Misha, I dont have it!" "It cant be continued, you understand?" "!" "Son, you just don't imagine the power, and you don't understand and don't know that is.." "please" "I don't want quiet.. quiet... quiet.." "Fuck I can't." "I have been eating steamed cutlets the past seven months" "Misha" "Listen, believe the great ones" "I say believe the great ones, my darling" "I've asked you a million times, Misha, a million times" "Misha please a normal steak" "Son, steam - that's a great thing." "Is that so hard?" "You want a fight or something?" "That's all enough .. now we have a fight." "Son, don't torture me" "Weak of starvation, he ate suspicious, he thought about stealing the food." "It was less shameful than to accept food from another's hands" "Son, can you imagine, how many barbarians there still are." "I got this call." "From Vitaliy Ivanovich." "He said:" ""Borrow me 700 dollars."" "Can you imagine?" "Give me tale book 700 dollars unbelievable" "He knows that all my bills are sorted by their series." "So I said:" ""It's not the money Vitalik."" ""It's just that it's not mine - it's Oleg's."" ""And you won't give back the same bills I give you - you'll return different ones."" "And what kind of order would there be after that?" "Son, it's been a long time since we've gone up to your mother's." "It's so horrible there." "Oaks, fences." "Birds shitting all over." "And bums." "Misha, go to sleep" "You can't even imagine the might of hell." "So, you say you werent in Saratov?" "The 8th." "And 25th?" "I've never even been to Saratov." "interesting..." "And tell me, what are these?" "what are these!" "?" "A mug," "A hummer right" "Why are you getting so pale?" "I have never been in Saratov, I'm telling you." "What never, never..." "You have never been at Moyakovskaya 7 apartment 68 You have never been there?" "From 7 to 9 pm?" "With Vitya Rogozhkin?" "And you weren't drilling anything, ha, weren't knocking?" "And this... that bitch... didn't go out onto the balcony?" "And that van didn't drive by?" "And you didn' t catch your on that nail?" "your jacket, then a neighbor began to scream" "The neighbour with the arched back, remember?" "And you weren't singing with Vitya in the garage?" "The garage by the bridge nu?" "so..?" "remember anything?" "I can show you arched-backs testimony, you want to read them?" "no..?" "Discretly..." "Ha, musician." "See, never say never!" "And I was sure you were down in America." "I dreamt in the train that I was late." "And I am." "It's ok." "It's over." "ZOYA KRAVCHENKO 1978-2002" "Ok, let's all go back to the hut." "It's cold." "I'm late late so stupid" "What happened?" "Why?" "Was she killed?" "Someone kill her?" "No." "She died." "From what?" "Choked." "How?" "On chewies." "What do you mean?" "Chewies?" "Chewed bread crumbs." "And what do I have to do with chewies?" "The whole village is making' dolls here." "I know." "Doll faces are made out of bread chewies." "Old women chewed it and Zoya shaped them together." "Then painted them." "Making the faces." "But, then that day, she came to the crones to have a drink." "So they are sitting there, chewing crumbs for the faces." "And she says: "Hey, how about I give you a hand with the chewing?"" "So she began to chew and choke." "Fucking shit" "Zoya made dolls for us and it's your fault she has been killed" "right and you are a good person" "She herself wanted to chew.. no body asked her to." "Look what he is doing!" "don't touch!" "You killed her and now you're gonna drink!" "otherwise it couldn't be." "So let's drink." "if we are already here of course" "eat something otherwise you'll only be drinking" "Me?" "Oi-vai" "There were 4 sisters and now 3" "You are the fourth." "Who will make dolls now?" "we have hands and legs and can't do anything bad man" "my fellow" "He stitched the dick instead of the nose." "Where is the dick instead of the nose?" "Here are the balls!" "Did you stitch the dick in wrong place?" "!" "Shut the fuck up!" "would I stitch like that?" "!" "No, it can be!" "No it can be!" "crazy horse.." "horse!" "fuck" "take that bitches!" "fuck" "bitch" "How would they drink that moonshine" "What, you think vodka's better?" "I should have eaten something." "A Russian girl should easily be able to drink a liter of vodka." "don't start..." "I'm begging disgusting" "Let's take a walk now." "stupid!" "enough!" "You all killed her." "we found a girl take a look so splendid so soft.." "take a look arises herself she is perfect.." "damn, take a look" "I will save them!" "turn them back!" "my children.." "iron scums" "my children" "here that's it... our children.. here.. that's it" "you get warm.." "good... iron bustards.." "that's it iron bustards.." "everything will be all right, Zoyika.." "will be all right" "now we're gonna sleep... and rest." "It will be all right.." "my children will be all right" "that's it this is the way we live" "we have to learn how to live in the good way" "It can't be by the bad way.. all the time.." "to go on" "Marinka" "Are you always like this?" "What?" "You know, all, so cool." "Basked in sunshine." "No, come on." "What sunshine are you talking about." "See, Zoika died." "That's true." "But I can't believe it somehow." "Just can't." "What you don't believe, stupid?" "Didn't you see her in the coffin?" "Yeah, I did." "But still it can't be." "We were selling stuff at a bazaar back then in September" "She - dolls, me - crystal." "It was fun together." "Then we made chebureki on the beach." "And at night we got smashed and swam." "Zoya, Zoichka" "Marinka, did you ever forgive her?" "When did you last see her?" "Back then." "That was back then?" "In the village?" "Yup." "Ooo, girlies." "Why am I feeling' so bad?" "You don't fuck often enough?" "What, did she not have a photo of herself?" "She had one just one" "The one that's on the cross" "She didn't like to take pictures of herself alone." "Always with someone." "Now, sisters, let's remember Zoya." "I um, had this shitty dream last night." "Like, I'm still in Simferopol , at grandma's apartment standing in the kitchen, making pelimenya." "And Zoika comes in and hands me a can." "The can is filled with earth." "I said "Zoya, I asked for sour cream."" "and she says, "Just try it, silly!" "It's awfully fresh!" "I got it without standing in line"" "And I got so scared." "I realize she's dead fucking dead but she is so happy, and running chuckle" "So she's standing in the doorway, with her arms folded" "I'm looking at her and realize" "I felt like I'd never be able to get out of that kitchen." "never" "Then I woke up." "That's because you didn't forgive her" "Probably" "What are you fucking saying?" "That I didn't forgive her, didn't forgive." "That I was in the hospital for three months?" "!" "That I almost collapsed at the train station?" "Fuck!" "Or that I had a miscarriage?" "!" "It wasn't even a miscarriage, but the child was already dead when it was cut out of me!" "Fools!" "Zoya, Zoyinka.." "Forgive me." "Get up dear." "We are having a disaster." "Get up dear." "We are having a disaster." "No eyes , no nose you have anymore." "They tore you apart." "You had a lot of patience it was very hard for you." "God, my darling.." "there is nothing left to look at." "Who could now see you as you were before?" "mercenaries will come tomorrow what are we going to sell them?" "We have no dolls how are we gonna live now?" "we have no money left what a disaster." "I'll shape them I told you don't lie!" "I'll shape them, Zoika told me her secret." "She told me her secret , how to make faces." "You just have to chew, and I shape the rest, I shape all." "We chew.. and..?" "Why aren't you chewing yourself?" "scum" "What, there's no light here?" "Turn the electricity off at night" "Those, iron scum" "So we go to sleep." "Here they are.. dolls, Zoyika's children." "Only these?" "There are a few others." "unfinished" "We finish them , and sell them" "For how much?" "It depends." "It's always enough" "What about clothes?" "To sew clothes, its a simple thing" "Zoya collected cloth, all kinds of rags" "But the faces gave us trouble." "Are faces hard to do?" "Faces are a disaster." "Only Zoinka made them." "What about the crones?" "What about the crones?" "Arms and legs were all they did." "And chewed the faces." "Out of bread." "That's it, what more can the crones do?" "Why bread?" "Why not?" "it's a good material." "It's strong, and ossifies." "Last forever forever..." "But the dogs ate them." "Zoinka liked dogs and they liked her." "listen.." "did Zoinka have a mould?" "what?" "A mould of the face" "It's easy - make one mould and just use it again." "Like forms for a tulskiyi gingerbread." "Gingerbread?" "But that's the trick.." "They looked similar, but she made each of them look special." "Each has its own personality." "She loved them like a mother loves her children." "But she didn't have her own children" "You said that she left some secret." "I thought it was some mould." "Ohhh." "It's so difficult here difficult here, Marina, because those metal scum!" "cause all things done in evil ways!" "They are not able do it in another way." "Buyers will come." "The scandal will start again scandal listen.." "You know what?" "Find a kid and make a mould of his face." "Just use it for the shape." "always" "Zoyinka didn't do it this way." "What mould?" "How do I make a mould, that I will always be shaping?" "how..?" "A mask of the face." "Like in the morgue." "They smear oil on the face, and put white clay on it." "It dries and the mask is ready." "You are getting to the point, Marinka" "We ain't got no kids here" "Around here we've only got crones," "But there's plenty of clay." "white and red damnit..." "It's so difficult here.." "All you do is to get drunk." "Push here a little." "hot" "Tear it apart." "It's hard." "Chew, don't swallow." "... I don't know any country ... that has men like that" "... where a man walks like he is the boss.." "... in his big motherland .too young" "Bitch, when will you shut your fucking mouth?" "start singing!" "...pigeons flying over our jail pigeons have no boundaries ." "I wish.." "I could fly with those pigeons to my site...." "I wish.." "I could fly with those pigeons to my site..." "Get up dear." "The sisters are fighting." "Get up dear." "The sisters are fighting." "What the hell are you doing?" "!" "Did you forget where we are?" "I don't want to see you here anymore." "What happened?" "To stay for a night.." "I don't want to see you any more.." "fools, bitches!" "I said, enough!" "fuck!" "Stop it the two of you!" "She had to go to the banya at first.." "and wash herself up." "Damn, it's hell." "Are you not going to the banya regularly?" "I'm used to a sauna." "It's not as cool as here." "Fuck, those are some nails you got, Verka!" "I didn't get it, what were you two quarreling about?" "What would you care?" "In the beginning due to a lover, later, because of money." "Clear?" "It's like a crazy house down here" "What's here?" "Crazy house is the right word" "I don't understand how Zoyinka could live here." "It's horrible" "Yeah these dolls." "And old women." "I should just bury all of them." "And the guy" "It's enough girls.." "He's very kind." "Yeah, sure is!" "It's about time to eat something and get out of here." "Exactly.. time to leave." "Or we'll start to get moldy." "Right" "When is the train?" "15:30" "Marin" "You want any of Zoika's things?" "Just the photo." "The one with all of us?" "Of course, I don't have a choice, do I?" "Cut it" "Give me a hand." "easy" "tasty eat, eat" "You pig, eat it!" "Take a hum, damnit," "with a tail." "Take a tail uh.. so delicious.." "with hands, with hands.." "delightful" "Help me with that." "Manya, eat.." "We like dogs" "Let it hung down." "Lets drink for Quadruplets?" "Quadruplets!" "once more.." "and ... drink" "this end is all yours" "take it to the mouth" "What a lady!" "Sonya" "... it was happy we were all equal.." ".... young Galya  blonde with long hair.." ".. young young Galya.." "That's it, you dead" "I don't want to go back there fuck them all!" "I can't stand it anymore." "fuck them" "Let's go for a walk.." "shall we?" "Let's go, come on.." "Come on, let's go." "don't touch me.." "That's just fucking great.." "Go take a look inside again." "I saw" "I can't stand it anymore" "Let's get some fresh air." "Just fucking great" "What, you really never saw them?" "Nope." "Never." "That's strange" "We've had them in our sixth refrigerator for about three years already." "We get frequent deliveries." "A delicacy." "What do they only breed them there?" "There are others..." "There are another three farms near Tambov." "A dog is a man's friend." "Tomorrow, at two" "I'm um, sorry.." "May I...." "No, no, not money.." "Wait a second.." "there's this thing.." "What thing?" "You have a pretty son." "May I make a mask of him?" "I'll pay you." "Here is the money... 68 rubles" "What fucking mask?" "!" "I pay.." "C'est la vie... other" "Did you eat?" "yes" "..and your Motherland will give you a chance to atone for your sins." "You'll be sent to a war zone." "There, blood of innocent people flows, there - our citizens suffer." "Like one of the greaters said, there is always room in life for braveness and heroism, room to show your ability to fight, to show yourself as a soldier, in the interest of our great Motherland." "What re-grading?" "Hey, Kolya, that's very good ground meat." "In the cans." "From the Kantemir squad." "Yeah." "Nine years.. so what?" "Yeah, it's minus twenty eight." "Right." "Even tomorrow is ok with delivery" "Who told you I don't deal with ground meat?" "I deal with everything that smells like meat." "It smells!" "Sure does!"