November 2008, Simferopol , Crimea, Ukraine
Varvara Nikolayenko on the stage in the theater play where she performs a role of the soviet Pioneer.

Opening night of the play “Stalin’s Roads” was scheduled for the day Ukraine commemorated victims of 1932-1933 Famine .Play presents Stalin as a man who created famine artificially with a purpose to punish Ukrainian anti-Soviet nationalism.During performance police was deployed outside and inside theater to avoid possible clashed with pro-Russian residents of the city-who’s views on the reasons behind the famine were radically different.