The second book (the first was “The Unwomanly Face of War”) in Svetlana Alexievich’s famous documentary-artistic cycle “Voices from Utopia.” Recollections of the Great Patriotic War by those who were 6–12 years old during the war—the most impartial and the most unfortunate of its witnesses. War seen through children’s eyes is even more terrifying than war recorded from a woman’s perspective. Alexievich’s books have nothing to do with the kind of literature where “the writer writes a little and the reader reads a little.” Yet it is precisely in connection with her books that the question most often arises: do we need such a terrible truth? The writer herself answers this question: “A person without memory is capable of giving birth only to evil and to nothing but evil.” “Last Witnesses” is a feat of children’s memory.