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Shelters and living through bombing

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Back then we lived there, all my life,

building and there are 16 like levels.

And back then my family, we lived on the

There were like really big problems,

and there was no heating.

Sometimes there was no water.

Sometimes,

when there were like really lots of bombs

the missiles flying around you and you

people would tend to go into the shelters,

any possible underground shelters,

And I spent my first night

Very interesting experience, I must say.

You know, absolutely huge amount of random

into their lands,

in their shelters underground,

And my parents living with my grandmother

with an old dog.

With 2 cats,

They had to go down on the stairs

in the shelter and then go back again

on there, in their, in their flat.

And I remember clearly that, I don't know,

but she shared me

into this exhibition,

and there

I know my mum obviously,

in the February, March, April,

and she lost so much weight.

And having no, you know, all these

to take for granted, like the water.

There were moments when

because there was no water in the toilet.

She could not, excuse me, flush that.

So she had to control what she

And being under the stress,

having old mother, my grandma,

the responsibility for them.

My father

but actually my father, he's also more

but my mother, she's more

I left that the country back then,

My brother went to the war and

internet connection to stay in touch with

And when I was,

exhibition, it made me cry realising,

able to go to the toilet because you

Or you use like,

you know, to go to the toilet at.

This is why my mother in her age had to,

Well, yet they went through that.

They were using for the lights,

They were using just basic candles.

At the beginning they were sleeping

it was impossible,

Going all the ways up

So they were sleeping in the corridors,

when there earthquake or the missile hit,

uh, between the particular walls.

So if something happens, those walls

they will not hit you or kill you.

So you have to be in the particular side

So these times, they're

But there again, I don't know how,

not to— to conserve

Because I know lots

They— I can't say like give up,

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