Since 2021, the author has been working as a psychologist with political prisoners and their relatives, including children. The book contains children's memories of the repressions that affected their family, collected during their internship, as well as dreams, dreams and fairy tales that they wrote to survive the trauma. Their experiences are compared with the stories of women and children repressed in Soviet times: a separate section is devoted to eyewitness memories of the ALZHIR women's camp. The author also gives recommendations on how and for what purpose to build communication with children on political topics.