Tadpole from the incubator

Tadpole from the incubator — an honest story about the structure of Soviet orphanages and the children who managed to survive in them. This book is about growing up, nightmarish mistakes, simple joys, and heavy but necessary life lessons. Childhood... spent under the yoke of a ruthless system is capable of breaking more than one fate, while for others, it can make them strong and teach them to love life. With such a degree of mutual indifference, I assure you, it's not hard to fall off the rails, to become the worst kind of delinquent, to commit those dreadful acts that you all so hypocritically lament about now! Especially when you are initially quite young and have no wise mentor behind you or at least life experience, which is worth a hundred advisors. Thus spoke I — the small, desperate Tadpole, fighting not so much for myself as for all the unfortunate orphans trapped in this terrible boarding school trap, more resembling a meat grinder.