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Memory binds and holds. Today it is strong, like coffee on the counter, but tomorrow memories will fade, dissolving in everyday worries. But there is something that cuts too deeply to disappear: it is war. What has been experienced does not erase and does not disappear. It is enough to close your eyes - and memory, like an old film projector, revives the frames from which you cannot escape.
“We will always return here, all our lives, to these trenches, to us young people with weapons. You will see. You will understand it later.”
This publication contains diary entries, essays, stories and some poems by Maksym “Dali” Kryvtsov, collected and arranged by his friend and comrade Valeriy Puzik.
Maksym began recording his thoughts in 2015 — during his service in the 5th battalion of the Right Sector State Unitary Enterprise and in the Rapid Reaction Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. Many notes were made after demobilization — about photography, baking, traveling, children's camps, where he was a teacher, and working with veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian war. And after the start of the full-scale invasion, Maksym rejoined the army and served as a machine gunner.
During this difficult period of his life, he actively recorded the then everyday life, photographed his comrades, and wrote poetry.
"Dali" is no longer with us, but he lives in our memory through these film photographs, poems, and diary entries.