The reader of Samizdat, a student-Chitaist from Lugansk, sent a text to the editorial office in which he collected letters about the war from the girls in the rear in Moscow and under the bombing in Nikolaev and Kharkov. These are sincere personal stories about everyday awakening to the sounds of sirens, fear of accidental death, faith in the victory of compassion and how war destroys everything that people are used to. We publish them without abbreviations.

The series “New Black Illustrations” is a set of grotesque alarming black and white images close in the image to book printed graphics (in the technique of xylography, linography or similar) with the display of circuits and spots through a set of points. The name can be decrypted as follows: these images are found (where?) And are in a new, black bag (in which alcohol are usually worn), and the black and new ones themselves.

Scientists call one of the most difficult periods in the history of Japan “Time of Darkness”. After the Russo-Japanese War, the annexation of Korea and the creation of a puppet regime in Manchuria on the eve of the Second World War in the country, imperialist sentiments and the policy of the militaristic dictatorship flourished.