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“Yes, it's complicated. We have a saying, actually. Have a drink in the morning, and
the whole day ahead of you can be free. Have something to drink in the morning, and the
whole day can feel like a holiday.”
“Drinking helps you forget reality?”
“I am just saying everything is brighter colors for a person when he is drunk.”
Sergei takes us for a drive around his city, then drops us off at a restaurant so we can
grab dinner before our evening train.
We pay Sergei for his services. Then I ask if I can write down his last name for the topic.
He stiffens up, and declines.
“You never know what tomorrow will bring,” he says.
I say thanks anyway, and we start to get out of the car. But then Sergei says something
else.
“Chort poberi [Oh damn]!”
He pauses.
“Sergei Komarov,” he says. “Let the world know me.”
Let the world know me.
Those words carry power. The power of a man who, before my eyes, overcame fear.
Sergei Komarov felt an instinctive reaction—fear—that many Russians feel every day
at different moments. And he decided to take the risk.
He decided to play chess this time.
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