The Capital of Our Motherland

I was 7, and it was officially my first act of civil disobedience — a small and, unfortunately, pro-soviet demonstration.

De jure, we were not the first. There were kids who started school on September 2, 1991 (in Ukraine, schools traditionally start on September 1, but that year, it fell on a Sunday), which was almost a week after Ukraine became independent. However, everything was still vague and in disarray. People were trying to figure out what had happened to them and…