58309 - The damned System

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athina Kehagias

Master: Why aren’t you talking, Disciple?
Disciple: About what, Master?
Master: About the Gulag…
Disciple: I do not know what to say…
Master: But you were born and lived in the Soviet Union…
Disciple: That’s the issue. All I did hear, I can see that they had nothing to do with the reality…
Master: You mean, it is as if you know nothing in actual fact?
Disciple: Now I see how drenched I was by the Soviet propaganda…
Master: The void replaced the propaganda…
Disciple: You can not imagine how much…
Master: Yet again I can.
Disciple: For so long I thought I knew something. And now I realize that it was all a lie.
Master: But you knew what they had done to your grandfather all though he was innocent.
Disciple: Yes, I knew it, but deep down I thought it was something that had to be happen…
Master: In order for the damned system to be saved.