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When I was born, in August of 1966, doctors told my mother that I was very weak and there was a little hope that I could alive. My parents were unbelievers but the Lord knew me and I praise Him for that! I was the smallest, skinniest and always sick during the time in school so I was freed from physical training… My father is from Ukraine, Poltavsk region, village Beriozovka. After he finished school he went to work as a miner in Donbas where everyone who voluntarily came there was given everything he needed for life. His name is Alexey. He was born in 1942. He grew up in the 12 people family. None of them knew the Lord. My father got a job of a metalworker. He entered Donetsk Polytechnic College. After graduating he was appointed to be responsible for the mine on his area. Soon after he was elected as a Party organizer of his area. Than Party organizer of a whole mine and eventually Party organizer of three mines. At that time, when I was finishing a senior school, my father was appointed to be the Second Party Secretary of a district committee. I entered Donetsk Technical School due to the director who was father’s friend. I neither wanted nor liked to study. Hence I was found of music I worked partially in the culture house where the first discos took place. It was 1980s. In our technical school was a competition of DJs. Three lovers of music including me won that competition. One teacher, who was in charge, had a rear collection of gramophone records of foreign singers. We started preparing discos on Saturdays for students. We were freed from our classes on Friday and Saturday for that purpose. As I worked in that culture house I met guys who performed in an instrumental band. I liked to spend time with them. I learnt to play drums. One of my classmates played a trump in the school orchestra. Others classmates of mine depended on their parents and did everything they wanted: indulged in alcohol, drugs and had fun with girls. A friend of mine, who was a trumpet-player, suggested me playing drums in the orchestra and soon after I participated in musical festivals. Besides that almost every week we played at funerals. We had to practice and it took us 2-3 days per week. As the result we had only one or two days to study. I liked that and was happy about it. Once after the funeral we were having meal. Friend of mine told me: “Have a drink! Aren’t you a man?” So I drank and smoked…after that my friends started to invite me to different parties. I liked to have fun and was willing to live such life. I met different kinds of people. When I was the third year my father sent me to study in the school to get a license. I met other guys there. They invited me to one flat where people drugged and listened music. It was the beginning of my new life. Soon after I started drugging, smoking marihuana and take different pills. My parents didn’t suspect anything and didn’t punish me. Once when my father was already the Second Party Secretary of a district committee, I roam about the streets to find money for drugs. I drop in at the first store. I saw that there was no sales man, so I stole a tape-recorder and run away. I was found very quickly. Shortly everybody learnt that the son of the Second Party Secretary of a district committee was a drug addict. I was well known in police because I was always in places where drug addicts gathered. They didn’t start a criminal procedure because all the police was subjected to my father. My father arranged everything that I would be taken to the Army. But someone reported to Kiev administration that the leader of the one of the biggest region in the city can’t handle his son and covers his crime. The commission from Kiev fired my father, the chief of Regional Interior Department and the interrogator, who investigated my case. In the Army, before I became a sergeant, I was a platoon commander assistant. When I came back from the Army my father thought that I had been changed. He had a serious talk with me and suggested me living on my own. He suggested me working on the coolest section, where one couldn’t get a job easily because they paid considerable salary. When I was on the shift I had to stand on my knees with a pick hammer and dig coal for eight hours, then throw it on a conveyor. Father explained me that soon I would have to marry, so several months of work would met all the needs for the wedding and for the first time of my family life. My father worked as a director assistant in accident prevention department at the mine administration. I worked in the mine standing on my knees for several months and I learnt something there. I got married and my wife got pregnant right away. It is said that one can’t escape from God as well as from Satan. Shortly I met my old friend who was a drug addict and we became good friends. I drugged every day and it was hard for me to work. I asked my father to give me an easier job. I was transferred to another job where I watch people working. I became a godfather of the man’s daughter. We went with him to villages and gathered poppies. We divided bandages saturated with drug from pappies and went home. Time passed and I run out all the bandages. I started to string out and looked for drugs. I met one drug addict who was looking for a drug dialer. I found buyers for him and he reworded me. At that time my business went up very fast. At home I store up a lot of drugs I had earned. Once I call on my parents to show them that I wasn’t charged up. As soon as my parents saw that I was okay they were glad and laid the table. We had lunch. Because I didn’t drink vodka for a long time, after I drank 200 grams I got tipsy and my sister and her husband took me home. I entered my apartment and I wanted to get rid of that tipsy condition. For this I had to drug myself. Hardly standing on my feet I took bandages put them in a vessel and boiled. Then I draw up drug into syringe and started to mainline. When a half of a doze was off I felt that I overdosed and I stopped mainlining. Than suddenly I heard a voice telling me: “Finish mainlining otherwise you won’t be charged up” as I should have cried out “Take out a needle quickly!”, instead of it I heard an opposite so I finished mainlining and fall off the chair. When my wife entered the room she saw my pale face and went to my parents. In the condition I had two options: whether I die from suffocating as the result of tongue falling into a throat or the heart would stop biting. Usually it is really rear to stay alive in this condition. That is why I can make a conclusion that it was God’s mercy. When I woke up and I was shocked how many bandages I used – it would enough to charge up five people. I couldn’t understand what had happened. Soon after I had to find money for drugs again. I stole a fur heat. I was caught right away and I was put to a trial. Hence I had an identification card of liquidator and governmental award for participation in liquidation at Chernobyl nuclear power station I was put on probation with compulsory work off at a manufacture. I started to drink more than jab-off. I had an “exciting” life. I gathered bunch of teenagers and taught them to brake in apartments and stores. After successes we had fun. If we had to put someone on his place we bit him. Once I fought with a policeman… Knife one guy… Police was looking for me everywhere. If I saw they were catching me up, we went out of the city and gathered puppies in villages, came back to Donetsk, sold puppies and drugged. I was caught at the apartment where I wanted to buy drugs. I was put on trial for the third time in my life. In the courtroom, 50 victims were gathered. I was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Father helped with reducing my sentence to tree years and a half. After two years in the prison under strict regulations I was transferred to a work farm from where I could go home for two days if I gave money. Once I went home and as I had many sicknesses I went to the hospital. I came back to the work farm with a conclusion of a doctor that I couldn’t do hard work. Having looked my case they learnt that I had been working as a manager. The administration suggested me working as a manager of housekeeping in one of the detachments on the work farm. As I was appointed I started to make order in my detachment. At the end of the day, when everyone went to sleep and was alone I asked myself what was the meaning of life. I was under such condition for several nights. And from another zone we received a bunch of prisoners. Among them was one guy who was brought to me and asked to be taken care of. His name was Dima. He was from Makeyevka, Donetsk region. He played a guitar and sang song about the Lord. But I didn’t listen to him as I was curious to learn what was the meaning of human life. When he noticed that I didn’t listen to him he suggested taking a walk. We went to a yard and I offered him a cigarette, but he said that he didn’t smoke. I wondered because in a prison everyone smokes. Than he explained to me that he was a believer and prayed to God. I told him that I had a cross and prayed if I really needed. He told me who was the Lord and why did he give life to a man. Then we came back to my room, kneeled and I repented. After some time we permitted to invite gospel team. Brothers sang, preached and some people believed in the Lord. After that we were allowed to fix one of the rooms for prayer meetings and study the word of God everyday. The Lord opened truths to us, as we were simple. It was wonderful time. After several months I became a responsible for the whole zone and I lived not in a barrack but in the hotel for prisoners. Satan was ready to attack me again. The head manager caused me to do a crime but when I resisted he didn’t say anything but in couple days he came to me and brought two spoonfuls of puppy. He said, “Eat quickly!” And started to eat. I tried to say that I didn’t want to do that but he persuaded and I subjected to him. After that he brought puppy everyday and I did all his orders. As the result we fought after which I was taken to a hospital. Doctors learnt that my spleen burst, blood went into abdominal cavity. The doctor said that if we were 10 minutes late I would have died. Work farm administration allowed me to keep treatment and when I was able to stand up and walk I was tempted again. I met girls who suggested me escaping from the hospital for a night. At that time I was alone and I couldn’t trust God. My new acquaintances pushed me to do another crime. I broke into an apartment and stole a lot of money. I decided to stop by a den in order to buy drugs. When they saw how much money I got they drugged me so much that I should had died. Policemen, who were in the park where I was left, didn’t trouble me but called an ambulance that saved me life. Praise God! I was in coma for three days. When I became conscious I decided to come back to God and ask for forgiveness embracing and kissing His feet. I couldn’t understand why did it happen with me. When I was checked out of the hospital I went to a prayer house and I talked with a pastor for a long time, than we prayed and I asked for God’s mercy. So I came back to the work farm. I read the word of God and prayed. I tried to find out the will of God for my life. In winter of 1995 I was baptized and promised to serve Him. In February of 1996 I went home. The church “Philadelphia” received me as a brother. Soon after I started to serve in the church and labor for God’s glory. But He wasn’t satisfied with my inward condition. After such life I saw some things in the church I didn’t expect to see. When I saw something, I don’t want to tell you about it, I left the church. As I was very discouraged I bought vodka, drank it and went for a walk. I met my friend who told me that he knew where he could buy good drug but he didn’t have money. I gave him money and after buying it we went to his house. I drugged him and than myself. I lost conscious and my body went pile. My friend was afraid and he called to my parents. When my parents came they thought I was dead. But when they were hesitating whether to call for an ambulance or not I opened my eyes. God didn’t let me to die. After that I decided to follow the Lord in spite of others deeds. The Lord gave me a wife. She is a Jew too. In 1997 we got married. In 1999 we moved to Israel, city Haifa. At the present we live in Tel Aviv. We have two sons. Our age difference is 13 years. I praise the Lord for His blood on the cross and for the fact that He rescued me from Satan many times. All the glory is for Jesus Christ! Amen!
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