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'Or once when I was sitting by the river I saw a cradle floating downstream. It was quite intact, except for a broken corner. Then the thoughts really came. Who could the owner of the cradle be? Your damn soldiers must have come to an aul and rounded up the Chechen women. Some devil killed an infant; took it by its legs and hit its head against the corner of a house. They do things like that, don't they?'