The topic of sexual violence has always been a taboo in Russia, and only recently this conspiracy of silence was interrupted by an impressive social media flash mob #I’m not afraid to say. But even then, few women dared to talk about domestic violence.
And it’s not just that a particularly strong sense of shame is associated with this topic. Often, children who are abused by fathers and stepfathers do not realize that they are victims of a crime. So it was with Vera, whose confession was recorded by journalist and psychologist Zhenya Snezhkina. At the age of nine, Verino’s happy childhood ended with the appearance of a new husband with her mother. Five years later, her stepfather began to rape her, and then her sisters. However, this is not only a story of a terrible childhood trauma, but also a story of overcoming, gaining dignity, freedom and self-reliance.
Ridero, Publishing Solutions, 94 p.