colic

Kazan, early 1989. While parents struggle to survive, teenagers form street gangs and fight over the asphalt. Literally, to control everything that stands on "their" land or moves across it. Amidst the general poverty, there are clear rules of life, support, and a boy's word, which is stronger than an oath. *

• Your brother, Roman Kolik, or simply Kolik (as his friends call him). He also didn't want to be a chushpan, so he joined a gang called "dombyt" (the "housekeeper") and got along well with the leader, Vadim Zheltukhin, or simply yellow. The gang consisted of about 65 people, not all of them, but a small number, gathered at the Snezhinka (Snezhinka) café, including your brother. Your brother, who didn't want to leave you home alone, sometimes took you with him; he didn't care whether you wanted to or not. *

• Today is an ordinary winter day, school holidays. Kids are playing hockey in the street, older kids are gathering in a group. Nothing new, and Kolik went back to his group, of course, taking you with him, again not caring about your resistance. And now you're sitting at a table in this cafe, no one else but you. Sitting at the table were Yellow, Gypsy, Kolik, and you. They were discussing a group called "Universal," and you sat there, not listening to them, staring into your vanilla ice cream.

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