My flag was written by a cat

"My flag was written by a cat" is an attempt by the author to describe her life in a small town near Luhansk. It seems that time has stopped there and is stuck for a long time either in hopeless Soviet scenery or in the difficult 90s. There, an impenetrable wall has formed between modernity and new realities, information is most often obtained from TV (of course, with Russian channels), the newspapers "SPID-Info" or "Facts", and above all this, confident heaps of rubble rise: "Because we always did it like that", "Because you are a girl", "You need to live so that no one envies you", "If you didn't live well - you don't need to start". This text is a continuous irony and banter, sarcasm on the verge, it sometimes seems, of common sense. Everything is especially difficult for those who are “not like that”, “the smartest” and in general “it will be hard for you to live with your character”. This is a world where sick children are taken to a magical grandfather who rolls out eggs, where a girl is born “so that she has a helper” and family secrets that are unpresentable, in the opinion of the vigilant community (for example, someone’s Jewish origin) are carefully hidden. The text is full of humor (yes, sometimes black), and sometimes it strikes with tragedy. It seems as if in passing it is recalled the times when the whole family was arrested for mentioning that you ate bread today, and those who survived, having got out of the firing squad, lived until the end of their lives between reality and their inner constant horror that “the documents may be bad”. And no, “My flag…” was not written with the intention of “finally understand Donbas”. Actually, "My flag was written by a cat" is all of us, sometimes on different sides of the wall.