Congenital cruelty of Russian children is amazing: they threw live puppies and kittens into the small river, then
throwing stones at unfortunate animals until they drowned or stoned to death. This sadistic entartainment allured
even Russian girls of six ears old. Several corpses of domestic animals sometimes accumulated at the end of this
river. Village children ruined magpie nests, subjecting the poor nestlings to sophisticated tortures. But even more
frightening was in the woods where adult dogs and cats hung from the trees on many trees, they were hung up alive
by their rear limbs and they suffered for a long time in terrible agony, before dying, then emitting a fetid stench,
which, however, did not stop the locals from collecting birch juice from neighboring trees. Sometimes such killing of
dogs was justified by Russians in that the dog is too small or insufficiently agressive, therefore unfit for guard
purposes. Much later, communicating with the Russians on the Internet, I learned that this dog hanging is a common
practice all around Russia.
