The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt

Perestroika has already stepped from the Kremlin stands onto the streets of cities and towns. The Soviet Union is dying before our eyes, and along with the premonition of change, freedom of speech, music and prices, freedom from conscience appears, bordering on lawlessness. While parents fight for survival, children abandoned by everyone flock into street flocks and “fight for the asphalt.” They literally fight to control everything that stands on their land or moves on it. In the midst of general poverty, there are clear rules of life, support and a boy’s word, which is stronger than an oath. But friendship and concepts of justice are increasingly mixed with violence and crime.