«По России все деревни уничтожены, так что? Школа, конечно, нужна бы, но детей мало. Господи, такая школа была построена! Новую школу снесли! Новейшую! Начальные классы все, всё строили. Тут была построена школа-сад. Власть пришла другая – и им не нужна…»

“All over Russia villages have been destroyed, so what? Of course, we need the school, but there are very few children here now. Good Lord, what a school it was! And this new school building was torn down. The new one! It had a primary school, and a kindergarten. But the new authorities did not need the school, no…”

«Школу закрыли, и там и школа, и сад, и всё… Так разобрали, блин! Так зачем ещё разбирать-то? Оставили бы. Нет, продали всё»

“The school was closed, and the kindergarten, too, and all… They just dismantled it. Why did they have to dismantle it? Why not leave it like that? They just sold it all”