Why I'm Alive

Чому я живий

Also known as Тепер я турок, не козак…, Chomu ya zhyvyi

Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family life, quarrelsome neighbors, amateur opera, denunciations to the NKVD, and a dance floor in the city garden, the persecution of religion and, of course, with love.