Black Diary

It's better not to believe this. It will be calmer. Each of us… 1939. The colonel of state security exits through the back door into the yard. The condemned are already lined up, facing the red brick wall. The firing squad is ready. A minute before the execution, the colonel receives an envelope marked "urgent." He opens it. There is an order to cancel the execution. All the condemned are rehabilitated. But the colonel silently hides the envelope in his pocket. A minute later, the sentence is carried out. Among the enemies of the people is that strange shaman without a name or surname, whom the colonel referred to as Chukchi during the interrogations. The shaman threatened him, cursed him, and assured him that the curse would be passed down from generation to generation until the last descendant of the colonel perished, suffering and repenting. Many years later, under strange circumstances, a young man named Vlad hanged himself. In his suicide note, he reported that he had no other choice after discovering who his grandfather was and what he had done… Children must pay for the sins of their fathers—whether it's a question or an exclamation, you decide.