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Despite the fact that Natasha’s parents punished her brother for the incident with the bread laced with rat poison, the hatred he felt toward his sisters only grew stronger in the six- or seven-year-old boy. One day, an incident occurred that led Natasha’s parents, following the advice of relatives, to send their son for a year to another city to be raised by the mother’s brother. After that, the mother never again left her son alone for long with her little daughters while he was still living at home. She had to quit her job and spent eight years as a housewife, which was highly disapproved of in Soviet times. One day, after stepping out briefly to the store, the mother returned home to a horrifying scene: the daughters were standing on stools, with nooses from makeshift gallows tightened around their necks. Natasha’s six-year-old brother had made the gallows, placed his sisters on the stools, put the nooses around their necks, and tightened them. All that remained was to kick the stools out from under their feet. Had the mother returned just a few minutes later, there would have been no one to write this book – and no one it could be written about. It is hard to say how such a young boy could have managed on his own to construct gallows and plan everything in such detail in order to get rid of his sisters. But it appears that this could hardly have happened without the influence of dark forces. Well-known are the cases of demonic possession, including accounts by the Apostle of entire legions of demons entering a person. Not to mention Satan himself entering Judas, who betrayed Christ. But one fact is clear: evil, working through the brother, tried from early childhood and throughout their entire lives to take the lives of Natasha and her sister.

A year after returning from their uncle’s, the brother harbored even greater resentment toward his sisters because he had been forced to live temporarily away from their parents. Realizing that directly harming his sisters could lead to consequences and punishment, he began arranging “accidents” during dangerous “games” he forced them to play. These games involved jumping from a wardrobe to a bed, from one bed to another. He made a bow and arrows, attaching real needles to the tips, and forced them to run through doorways while he shot them with these arrows. On one occasion, Natasha’s sister jumped and hit her head hard against the wall near the bed, losing consciousness for a short time.

When the family moved to an apartment on the 8th floor, the older brother’s “games” became more sophisticated. He forced his sisters to walk along the balcony railing on the 8th floor, holding only onto the clothesline. This was a “circus act game.” But he himself did not walk along the railing. Natasha and her sister were then six or seven years old, and he was ten or eleven. If Natasha refused to play, he would hit her. When the sisters successfully walked along the railing, he became very angry, apparently expecting the opposite outcome. Natasha and her sister were children and did not understand this. This continued for many years until the sisters grew older and began to recognize the danger of the games their brother proposed. When Natasha was ten to twelve years old (and her brother fourteen to sixteen), he began inventing “challenge-games.” One of these challenges involved crawling from one balcony to another in adjacent rooms. Natasha said it was suicidal and not worth doing. But the brother crawled across the balcony partition on the 8th floor. Natasha and her sister wanted to stop him, but it was impossible – he was stronger than they were. The sisters were terrified and told him he had gone mad, that he could fall and break himself. After that, he tried to force the sisters to crawl across, but they flatly refused. Natasha and her sister were no longer naive children, and he realized it. A few days later, a friend of the brother from a neighboring building came to visit. Natasha told him about her brother’s recent actions. The friend was extremely shocked. He said that for several weeks, the brother had come to his house every day to practice crawling from balcony to balcony, but on the first floor in an apartment with a layout identical to the one where Natasha’s family lived. After this incident, the brother’s friend stopped interacting with him.

One day, the brother, supposedly “as a joke,” compressed Natasha’s carotid arteries. At that time, she still did not understand that this was effectively an attempt to kill someone, if the person was not resuscitated in time – and in some cases, resuscitation might be impossible. She lost consciousness. Her sister began shaking her, and the brother also became frightened, but he would not allow her sister to call an ambulance. After about 10—15 minutes (time seemed to pass very slowly, and to her sister it felt like much longer), Natasha opened her eyes. She said that she had gone somewhere else, and that it felt so good, so light. She said she could hear her sister screaming and calling her, but she did not want to leave the place where she was. Then, some beings appeared – perhaps Angels – and told her that she had died, but that it was not yet her time to leave this life. Therefore, she urgently needed to be returned. Natasha thought about how her sister would be left without her, that she might never see her again, and that they would be separated forever. And then she came back to consciousness. What the brother intended by conducting this “experiment” is unclear. Perhaps he was practicing for future victims using his sisters – we can only speculate. But this was already the third time Natasha’s life had been in serious danger due to her brother’s “love”: rat poison, the gallows, and the compression of her carotid arteries.

When the brother was sixteen and joined a boxing club, his sisters became punching bags for him. However, he did not stay in the club long – he was expelled after severely beating a boy who had been paired with him in the ring. Later, when he joined a karate club, all the techniques and throws were tested on his sisters. But even there, he did not stay long – he was expelled again. A person with sadistic tendencies should not be allowed to participate in such sports.

Natasha and her sister often complained to their parents that their brother was beating and tormenting them. Their father punished him several times for this, but afterwards, things became even worse. He tormented and beat them even more, taking revenge for being punished. At the same time, the brother also complained to their mother that it was Natasha and her sister who were bothering and tormenting him. The mother began to protect him. Natasha and her sister lived in fear. They had no one to complain to. And if their father tried to punish the brother, the mother would intervene and defend him. Moreover, the brother constantly accused his sisters of being born, claiming that if they did not exist, everything would be bought only for him. And when the parents spent money on their daughters, the sisters were, in his view, taking what should belong to him alone. Because of this, he would also constantly take the sisters’ personal savings, which they had been saving for school lunches.

In addition to physical abuse, the brother also used psychological abuse, insulting their personalities and human dignity. These attacks were the hardest for Natasha to endure. The best way she found to avoid encounters with her brother and protect herself while their parents were at work was to close her bedroom door with a wardrobe. Natasha and her sister would push the wardrobe along with the clothes together to block the entrance to their room, placing the wardrobe legs on potato slices for better leverage. And when their parents came home and Natasha heard the front door open, they would push the wardrobe back into place. This went on for many years.