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From a starving mountain village to the throne of a dying empire, this is your life as every rank in the Soviet Union.
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VIDEO TOPICS/TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 The Peasant
2:45 The Factory Worker
5:10 The Soldier
7:47 The Candidate Member
10:32 The District Secretary
13:05 The Regional Boss
15:37 The Central Committee Member
18:12 The Minister
20:43 The Politburo Member
23:39 The General Secretary
Every episode takes a lot of research and writing. Drop your next video idea in the comments. I read them all.
Subscribe so you don't miss the next one! 🔔
VIDEO TOPICS/TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 The Peasant
2:45 The Factory Worker
5:10 The Soldier
7:47 The Candidate Member
10:32 The District Secretary
13:05 The Regional Boss
15:37 The Central Committee Member
18:12 The Minister
20:43 The Politburo Member
23:39 The General Secretary
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00:00Level 1. The Peasant
00:01You are 12 years old. You live in a village in Ukraine.
00:06The village does not appear on any map that matters.
00:09The houses are made of timber and packed earth.
00:12The roof leaks when it rains.
00:15You sleep on a clay stove that stays warm through the night.
00:18Your mother sleeps beside you.
00:20Your father is already gone to the fields.
00:23Your younger sister coughs in the dark.
00:26There is no doctor in the village.
00:28You wake before the sun.
00:30The sun does not wait for anyone.
00:33Neither does the collective.
00:34The farm is called a kolhaas.
00:37Nothing on it belongs to you.
00:39The land belongs to the state.
00:41The grain belongs to the state.
00:43The single horse belongs to the state.
00:46Last year, your family owned a cow.
00:49The men came and took it.
00:51They said private property was a crime against the people.
00:54Your father said nothing.
00:56Saying something was more dangerous than losing the cow.
01:00You work in the fields beside the adults.
01:03You pull weeds.
01:04You carry water.
01:05You glean the grain that falls during the harvest.
01:08The quota is set by men in the city.
01:11They have never planted a seed.
01:13They decide how much wheat the village must surrender.
01:17The number has nothing to do with the soil.
01:20The soil is tired.
01:21The weather does not obey the plan.
01:24In the worst winter, the grain was taken anyway.
01:27They called it requisition.
01:29They took the seed corn too.
01:31They left the village with nothing to plant and nothing to eat.
01:36People began to swell.
01:38Their faces and bellies filled with water.
01:40Their arms turned to sticks.
01:43Then they stopped moving.
01:44You saw bodies on the road to the next village.
01:48Nobody buried them quickly.
01:50The living were too weak to dig.
01:53You ate things you do not speak about now.
01:56Bark.
01:57Grass.
01:58The frozen potatoes left in the ground.
02:01Your sister survived.
02:03Many did not.
02:04The state said the hunger never happened.
02:07To say otherwise was a crime.
02:09You learned young that the truth and the official truth were two different things.
02:14You learned to keep one inside and show the other.
02:18A man from the district visits the school.
02:20He wears a leather coat.
02:22He tells you that you are the future of socialism.
02:26He tells you that the leader in Moscow loves you like a father.
02:30You believe him because you are 12 and you want to be loved.
02:34You do not yet know how the system works.
02:36You only know hunger and cold and the portrait of the man on the wall.
02:42You will learn the rest.
02:44Everyone does.
02:45Level 2.
02:46The factory worker.
02:48You are 18 now.
02:49The village could not hold you.
02:51There was no future in the fields.
02:52You took a train to the city with a cardboard suitcase.
02:55The train was packed with people just like you.
02:58The state was building factories everywhere.
03:00The plan demanded steel and tractors and coal.
03:03The plan demanded bodies to make them.
03:06You live in a barracks at first.
03:08Then a communal apartment.
03:09You share a kitchen with four families.
03:11You share one toilet with 20 people.
03:14On the wall hangs a portrait of Stalin.
03:16You dust it every morning before you do anything else.
03:19A dusty portrait can be reported.
03:21Your neighbor reports things.
03:23Everyone has a neighbor who reports things.
03:26You work at a metal plant.
03:27Your shift is 12 hours.
03:29Sometimes it is longer.
03:31There is always a campaign.
03:32This is the year of over-fulfilling the plan.
03:35Every year is the year of over-fulfilling the plan.
03:38A worker named Stakhanov once mined coal at 14 times the quota.
03:42Now everyone must be a Stakhanovite.
03:45The norms keep rising.
03:46The pay does not.
03:48You learn to fix your machine with scrap and wire.
03:51Waiting for official parts means waiting forever.
03:53The plan does not care about broken machines.
03:56The plan only cares about numbers.
03:58If production stops, someone is blamed.
04:00If someone is blamed, the someone disappears.
04:04You make sure the someone is never you.
04:06You attend meetings after your shift.
04:08You sit on a hard bench and clap.
04:10You clap for the leader.
04:12You clap for the plan.
04:13You clap for the heroic workers of the Soviet Union.
04:16The man beside you fell asleep clapping once.
04:19He was reported the next day.
04:21You do not fall asleep.
04:22You have trained your hands to clap while your mind sleeps standing up.
04:26You meet a girl at the plant.
04:28Her name is Nina.
04:29She works in the textile section.
04:31She has serious eyes and a quiet laugh.
04:34You walk her home along the gray streets.
04:36You talk about nothing because talking about something is dangerous.
04:40You fall in love between the campaigns and the meetings and the cold.
04:43It is the first thing in your life that belongs only to you.
04:47Not the state.
04:48You.
04:48Then the arrests begin.
04:50They come at night.
04:51A black car.
04:52A knock.
04:53A man from the apartment above you is taken.
04:56His wife says he was a wrecker.
04:57An enemy of the people.
04:59She says it loudly so the neighbors hear her say it.
05:02The next week she is taken too.
05:04You understand the rules now.
05:06Loyalty is not enough.
05:07You must perform loyalty where others can witness it.
05:10Level 3.
05:11The Soldier.
05:13You are 21 when the war comes.
05:15The Germans cross the border in June.
05:18The radio calls it the Great Patriotic War.
05:21The state was not ready.
05:23The leader had been warned it was coming.
05:25And refused to believe it.
05:27Now the enemy is racing toward Moscow.
05:30They need every man who can hold a rifle.
05:33They come for you at the plant.
05:35You are handed a uniform that does not fit.
05:38You are handed a rifle.
05:40But not enough rifles for everyone.
05:42The man beside you is told to wait.
05:45When the first man falls, pick up his weapon.
05:48That is the instruction.
05:50You think it is a joke.
05:51It is not a joke.
05:54You march toward the front in a column that stretches for miles.
05:57You dig trenches in frozen ground.
06:00You eat thin soup and black bread when there is bread.
06:03You learn what artillery sounds like before it lands.
06:07You learn the difference between a shell that will miss and one that will not.
06:12The men who cannot learn this quickly do not live long.
06:16Behind your own lines stand other soldiers.
06:18They are not facing the enemy.
06:21They are facing you.
06:22They are the blocking detachments.
06:25If you retreat without orders, they shoot you.
06:28There is an order from the very top.
06:30Not one step back.
06:33You are caught between two ways to die.
06:36You choose the way that faces forward.
06:39Almost everyone chooses forward.
06:42You fight through a winter that kills as efficiently as any German.
06:46You see Nina's face when you close your eyes.
06:49You wrote her one letter.
06:51You do not know if it arrived.
06:53The mail is a rumor.
06:55You survive the siege.
06:57You survive the counterattack.
06:59You march west across a continent of ruins.
07:02You see what the enemy did to the villages.
07:05You see what your own army does in return.
07:08You stop being shocked by either.
07:11Something inside you goes quiet.
07:13You will spend the rest of your life trying to remember where you put it.
07:18When the war ends, you are alive.
07:20You do not know why.
07:23Twenty million of your countrymen are not.
07:25You have a medal and a limp
07:27and a silence you carry like a stone.
07:30You go home to find the city standing
07:32and Nina waiting.
07:34She survived too.
07:36You hold her and you both cry.
07:39Neither of you says what you saw.
07:42There are no words that fit.
07:44And the words that fit are dangerous.
07:48Level 4.
07:48The Candidate Member
07:50You are 27 now.
07:52The war made you something the state values.
07:55A veteran.
07:56A survivor.
07:57A man who followed orders and lived.
08:00You marry Nina in a small ceremony with no church.
08:03Churches are for the past.
08:05The party is the future.
08:07You decide to climb it.
08:09You join the Komsomal first, the youth wing,
08:12even though you are nearly too old.
08:14You organize the young workers at the plant.
08:17You run the meetings you once slept through.
08:19You give speeches about the leader and the plan and the glorious victory.
08:23You discover that you are good at this.
08:25The words come easily because you stopped believing them years ago.
08:29Belief gets in the way of performance.
08:31You apply to become a candidate member of the party.
08:34This is not membership yet.
08:36It is a probation.
08:37You are watched.
08:39You are tested.
08:40You attend political education in the evenings.
08:43You study the writings of Marx and Lenin and Stalin.
08:47You memorize the correct answers.
08:49You learn that the correct answer changes over time.
08:53Yesterday's correct answer can become today's crime.
08:56Your first son is born this year.
08:58You name him after your father.
09:01Nina holds him while the neighbors pretend not to listen through the walls.
09:04You look at the boy and feel the old fear and a new hope at once.
09:09You want him to have more than bark soup and a leaking roof.
09:13The only road to more runs through the party.
09:17You inform on a co-worker.
09:19You do not want to.
09:20He made a joke about the leader's mustache.
09:23Someone heard it.
09:24If you stay silent and someone else reports it,
09:27your silence becomes your crime.
09:29So you write the report.
09:31The man is taken.
09:32You tell yourself he was careless.
09:34You tell yourself you had a family to protect.
09:37Both things are true.
09:39Neither makes you sleep better.
09:41You learn the unwritten rules quickly.
09:44You never criticize a superior.
09:46You never volunteer an opinion before the line is set.
09:49You wait to hear which way the wind blows.
09:52Then you blow with it.
09:53You attach yourself to a patron.
09:56A man one rung above who can pull you up.
09:59His name is Borisov.
10:01He runs the district committee.
10:03You make yourself useful to Borisov.
10:05You become indispensable in small ways
10:07until he cannot imagine the office without you.
10:10You become a full party member two years later.
10:13They hand you a red booklet.
10:16It is the most important document you will ever own.
10:19It is your shield and your ladder and your leash all at once.
10:24You are inside now.
10:26The system has decided you are worth something.
10:29You intend to prove it right.
10:32Level 5.
10:33The District Secretary.
10:34You are 33.
10:36Borisov moves up and he takes you with him.
10:39You become a secretary of the District Party Committee, the RICOM.
10:43You are now a small king of a small kingdom.
10:46You manage the affairs of a whole district.
10:49Factories report to you.
10:51Collective farms report to you.
10:52The schools and the hospitals and the police answer in the end to you.
10:57You have an office with a telephone that actually works.
11:00You have a car, though you share the driver.
11:02Your family moves into a real apartment with your own kitchen.
11:06Nina cries when she sees it.
11:07After the communal years, a private kitchen feels like a palace.
11:12Your son starts school in a uniform with a red scarf.
11:15A daughter is born this year.
11:17You name her Vera, which means faith.
11:20You are not sure faith in what.
11:22Your job is to make the numbers true.
11:25The plan arrives from above.
11:27So many tons of grain.
11:28So many meters of cloth.
11:30So many tractors repaired.
11:32The numbers are impossible.
11:34The District cannot meet them.
11:36You meet them on paper anyway.
11:38You learn the art of the false report.
11:41You inflate the harvest.
11:42You borrow from next year's quota.
11:45Everyone above you knows the numbers are fiction.
11:47They prefer the fiction.
11:49A good fiction lets everyone keep their post.
11:52A true report that admits failure is a confession.
11:54Confessions end careers and sometimes lives.
11:58So you lie upward and you demand lies from below.
12:02The whole pyramid is built of lies stacked on lies.
12:06Somehow the bread mostly arrives.
12:08And somehow the country mostly stands.
12:11You learn to handle the secret police, who watch even you.
12:15You learn which of your subordinates report to them.
12:18You feed those men small, harmless truths to keep them fed.
12:22You learn that information is the real currency.
12:25Money means little when the state owns everything.
12:27But knowing a secret about the man above you is worth more than money.
12:32You begin to collect secrets the way a peasant once collected grain.
12:36Stalin dies while you hold this post.
12:39The whole country weeps, including you, in public.
12:43In private, you wait to see who wins the struggle at the top.
12:46A man named Khrushchev rises.
12:49He gives a secret speech.
12:51He says the leader you worshipped committed terrible crimes.
12:54The portrait you dusted every morning is quietly taken down.
12:58You take yours down, too.
13:00You learned long ago to follow the wind, not the face on the wall.
13:04Level 6.
13:06The Regional Boss.
13:07You are 41.
13:09Your loyalty and your useful lies have been noticed by men far above Borisov.
13:14You are promoted to the Regional Party Committee, the OBCOM.
13:18You now run an entire oblast, a region the size of a small country.
13:22Millions of people live under your authority.
13:25The privileges grow with the rank.
13:28This is the secret heart of the system.
13:30There is no private wealth, officially.
13:33In reality, there is the nomenklatura.
13:36It is the list of trusted officials who receive what others cannot.
13:40You shop at a closed store with goods that ordinary citizens never see.
13:45You get a dacha, a country house, in a forest reserved for officials.
13:49You get the best medical care in a clinic the public cannot enter.
13:53Your son is a teenager now.
13:56He goes to a special school for the children of officials.
13:59He will enter a good university without taking the impossible entrance exams.
14:04The system that crushes others lifts your family without effort.
14:08You tell yourself you earned this.
14:10You also know that millions worked just as hard and got nothing.
14:14The difference is the red booklet and the wind you learn to read.
14:19You manage a region full of impossible problems.
14:22The factories are inefficient.
14:24The farms cannot feed the cities.
14:27The housing is crumbling.
14:29You cannot fix any of it.
14:31Fixing it would mean admitting the system itself is broken.
14:35So you manage the appearance instead.
14:38You produce reports that say the region thrives.
14:41You survive a shift at the top.
14:44Khrushchev is removed in a quiet coup by the men in the room with him.
14:48A man named Brezhnev takes over.
14:50The new era values stability above everything.
14:54No more risky reforms.
14:56No more secret speeches.
14:58Just the slow, comfortable rot of men clinging to their seats.
15:03This suits you.
15:04You have always been a survivor first and a believer never.
15:08Your old patron, Borisov, falls in the reshuffles.
15:12He backed the wrong faction.
15:14He is sent to manage a tractor depot in the Far East.
15:18You do not call him.
15:19You do not write.
15:21You learned the lesson at the bottom when your neighbor was taken.
15:25His wife denounced him to save herself.
15:28You feel the weight of it.
15:29You make the choice to abandon him anyway.
15:33The wind decides.
15:34And you follow the wind.
15:36Level 7.
15:38The Central Committee Member.
15:40You are 49 when Moscow calls you to the center.
15:43You are made a member of the Central Committee.
15:45You move to the capital with Nina and the children.
15:48You receive an apartment on a wide street where the powerful live.
15:52The building has a guard at the door who knows your name and asks no questions.
15:56The Central Committee, on paper, runs the party between congresses.
16:01In truth, it is a few hundred of the most powerful people in the country.
16:06You sit in a great hall and you vote.
16:09The votes are always unanimous.
16:11To vote against is unthinkable.
16:13You raise your hand when the others raise theirs.
16:17You learn to clap in a factory 30 years ago.
16:19The skill has carried you all the way to the top tables of the empire.
16:24The privileges become surreal.
16:26You have a chauffeured Volga that drives in a special lane.
16:30There is a whole hidden country built inside the country.
16:33Only a few thousand people are allowed to live in it.
16:37Outside your car, ordinary people stand in lines for hours to buy one sausage.
16:41You ride past them in your warm, sealed lane.
16:45You no longer let yourself see the lines.
16:48Your daughter Vera grows into a young woman who has never known hunger.
16:52She does not believe your stories of the village.
16:55You do not push it.
16:56You are not even sure you want her to believe it.
16:59The forgetting is its own kind of comfort.
17:02Your son has joined the foreign ministry.
17:05He travels abroad.
17:06He sends back small luxuries and large silences.
17:10You wonder what he sees out there.
17:12You wonder if he is starting to suspect what you suspected at 27.
17:17The work here is mostly the management of decline.
17:21No one is allowed to call it decline.
17:23The economy stalls.
17:25Oil money hides the failure for a while.
17:28The shelves empty slowly.
17:30The vodka flows to keep the people numb.
17:33The old men at the very top grow visibly older.
17:36The leader appears on television barely able to speak.
17:41Everyone pretends not to notice.
17:43Pretending not to notice is the highest political skill in the land.
17:47You attend the funerals.
17:49One leader dies, then another, then another in just a few years.
17:54Each time the whole apparatus holds its breath to see who rises.
17:58You have spent your whole life learning the wind before it blows.
18:01Now you are close enough to the top to feel the air begin to move.
18:06You position yourself.
18:08You wait.
18:09Your turn is coming.
18:12Level 8.
18:13The Minister.
18:14You are 56.
18:15They make you a minister and a candidate member of the Politburo.
18:19The Politburo is the true government of the Soviet Union.
18:23A dozen men decide everything for 300 million people.
18:27As a candidate member, you sit at the table, but you do not yet vote.
18:32You are one step from the absolute summit.
18:34You can see it from here.
18:36You run a vast ministry.
18:38You control an entire sector of the economy.
18:41The budget you oversee is enormous and largely fictional.
18:45Money in this system is just a way of moving blame.
18:48Your real job is to keep your sector from failing visibly.
18:51You must also make sure that any failure is blamed on someone else.
18:55The dacha you receive now is a mansion behind a high fence.
18:59You eat food flown in from abroad while the country queues for bread.
19:03You have become exactly the kind of man the revolution promised to destroy.
19:07You know this.
19:09You drink a little more each year to keep from knowing it too clearly.
19:12Your son defects.
19:14The news reaches you in a sealed envelope, hand-delivered, so no clerk sees it.
19:19He requested asylum in the West during a posting abroad.
19:22He is gone.
19:23He is never coming back.
19:25The pain is enormous, and you are not allowed to show it.
19:29A defection in the family can end everything.
19:32You move fast.
19:34You denounce him before anyone can denounce you.
19:36You tell the Politburo he was always weak, always corrupted by the West.
19:41You disown your own son in a written statement to save the rest of the family.
19:45Nina never forgives you for it.
19:47She does not say so.
19:48She simply stops speaking to you in any way that matters.
19:52You share the mansion like two strangers sharing a hotel.
19:55You think of the girl with serious eyes from the textile section.
19:59You think of the gray streets where you walked her home.
20:02That young man would not recognize the old man who signed away his own child.
20:07You are not sure when the change happened.
20:09You suspect it happened a piece at a time.
20:11That is the most frightening thing of all.
20:14You survive the scandal because you are too useful and too well-connected to discard.
20:19You climb the last few steps.
20:21A younger leader takes power and talks of reform, of openness, of rebuilding.
20:26You smile and nod and support him in public.
20:29In private, you watch and wait because you have seen reformers fall before.
20:34You have outlived every patron and every rival.
20:37You are made a full member of the Politburo.
20:40There is only one chair left above you now.
20:42Level 9.
20:43The Politburo Member
20:45You are 63.
20:47You are a full member of the Politburo, one of the dozen men who rule.
20:51You sit at the long table in the Kremlin, and your hand decides millions of fates.
20:56You have reached a height your father, dead in a village field, never imagined.
21:01He owned a cow once, until they took it.
21:04His son helps run an empire of 11 time zones.
21:08The country you help rule is dying.
21:11At this level, you can finally see how completely.
21:13The economy does not work and cannot be made to work.
21:18Fixing it would mean dismantling the system that gives you everything.
21:22The republics on the edges are restless.
21:25The people no longer fear the way they once feared.
21:28The lies that held everything together are wearing thin.
21:31Too many people have seen the West on smuggled tapes.
21:34They know the official truth is just a story.
21:38You spend your nights reading reports no ordinary citizen will ever see.
21:42The real numbers.
21:43The true harvest.
21:45Not the inflated one you used to invent in the district.
21:48The actual mood of the population, measured by the secret police.
21:52Everything you read tells you the same thing in different words.
21:56The wall is cracking.
21:58You have spent 50 years following the wind.
22:01Now the wind is becoming a storm.
22:04You purged rivals to reach this chair.
22:07You did it the quiet, modern way.
22:09With transfers and forced retirements and scandals.
22:13You learned long ago that the leader keeps his men divided.
22:16Divided men watch each other instead of him.
22:19You play the game perfectly.
22:22You attach to no faction permanently.
22:24You are very good at survival.
22:26You have always been very good at survival.
22:29It is the only talent you ever fully trusted.
22:33Vera, your daughter, has children of your own blood now.
22:37Your grandchildren grow up in the sealed inner country.
22:40It is the one with the special stores and the painted streets.
22:44They will never know the village.
22:46They will never know the war.
22:47You sit with the youngest on your knee and feel something you cannot name.
22:52Not joy.
22:53Something more disorienting.
22:56You spent your whole life climbing away from where you started.
22:59You cannot remember anymore what you were climbing toward.
23:03The leader at the top is reforming the system faster than it can survive.
23:07You see disaster coming and you cannot stop it.
23:11To support him fully is to dismantle your world.
23:14To oppose him is to be branded an enemy of progress.
23:18You choose, as always, the middle, the wait, the watching.
23:23You position yourself for whatever comes next because something is coming.
23:28At your age and your height, the fall would be very far.
23:33There is one chair above you.
23:35You wonder, in the dark, whether you still want it.
23:42You sit at the top of the entire Soviet state.
23:47You are the general secretary, and your word is law across one-sixth of the earth.
23:52Your portrait hangs in every office, every classroom, every factory floor.
23:57Three hundred million people live beneath the decisions you make in a single, guarded room.
24:04You got here the way you got everywhere.
24:06You waited.
24:07You watched.
24:08You let the men ahead of you fall, and you stepped into the empty space.
24:13The reformer is gone.
24:15The hardliners and the reformers tore each other apart.
24:19You, the survivor who believed in nothing but survival, were the only one left standing.
24:24And now you have the throne.
24:26And the throne is a cage.
24:29You command armies that could end the world.
24:31You command a network of camps and police and informers that reaches into every kitchen.
24:37You command an arsenal that makes the great powers speak to you with care.
24:41And you cannot save the thing you rule.
24:45That is the terrible secret at the very top.
24:48The most powerful man in the empire is powerless against the rot.
24:52The rot is the empire.
24:55You sit alone at night in a Kremlin office.
24:57The reports pile up, and every one of them says the country is coming apart.
25:02The republics want to leave.
25:04The shelves are bare.
25:06The young no longer believe the songs you sang as a boy in that school.
25:11You remember the man in the leather coat now.
25:14You remember being twelve and wanting to be loved by a portrait on a wall.
25:18You became the portrait.
25:21No one believes in it anymore.
25:23And somewhere deep inside, neither do you.
25:27You think of the village.
25:28You think of the cow they took and the sister who survived.
25:32You think of the bodies on the frozen road.
25:35You think of Nina, who stopped speaking to you decades ago.
25:38She lies now in a guarded plot you visit alone.
25:42You think of the son you disowned to save yourself.
25:45He lives out his life in a country you spent your career calling the enemy.
25:50You wonder if he has children.
25:52You wonder if they know your name.
25:55You wonder if he ever forgave you, and you already know the answer.
25:59The answer is the loneliest thing you own.
26:03You are surrounded by guards who would die for you or kill you.
26:07It depends only on which order arrives first.
26:10You trust no one.
26:12You cannot afford to.
26:14The men at the table smile and scheme exactly as you once smiled and schemed.
26:19You taught yourself to read the wind across fifty years.
26:22The wind is screaming now, and there is no direction left to follow.
26:28You hold the empire together with your fists for as long as your fists can close.
26:33You tighten the grip.
26:35You purge a general.
26:37You crush a protest in a distant republic and call it order.
26:41You give a speech about the eternal strength of the Soviet people.
26:44You watch the faces in the hall, and you see that not one of them believes you.
26:50You are not sure you ever believed it.
26:52You are only sure that letting go means the end of you and everything you built.
26:59Somewhere in a village in the mountains, a child is being born tonight.
27:03The state is already deciding what that child will be.
27:07The class, the school, the factory, the rank, the limit of the climb.
27:12The child will learn to dust a portrait before doing anything else.
27:16The child will learn to clap without listening.
27:20The child will learn that the truth and the official truth are two different things.
27:25And one of those children, one in ten million, will read the wind better than the rest.
27:31They will climb all the way up here, to this cold room, to this cage.
27:36They will sit where you sit.
27:39They will be alone the way you are alone.
27:41And they will never be free.
27:44The cycle continues.
27:49The cycle continues.
27:49I will first go out.
27:49You
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