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Alexi's Binocular, You've Got to Learn You Can't Make a Nomin Lit Without Killing 10 Million People
He says he would sometimes say to his mum you know like well what about all the atrocities that have committed in the name of communism here. He loved them I mean he clearly loved them very much and his mother never stopped screaming but nonetheless despite that he loved her and his gentle father. But you're also seeing his adult eye looking at them and saying for goodness sake they were a bit absurd weren't they? So you've got the two things working together I think it's brilliant the way he does that. As well as there being a portrait of his parents in here which is very very appealing there's also a very good self portrait isn't there of this child you know 1950s Liverpool.