On the outskirts of the Belarusian village of Zalesje, where roadside crosses are usually placed, the residents erected a monument with the inscription "1990 Lord Jesus Christ, save the whole world from atomic war". We decided to restore that inscription after exactly 30 years. When we did it, we thought of the residents who, at the end of the Soviet Union, put up such a sign of protection at the very end of the street (where Poland began behind the forest). A point that was supposed to keep them safe from an apparently very near tragedy. Perhaps we will soon see these monuments growing in many modern cities around the world.  

The title refers to Ales Adamovich's The Last Pastoral, a dystopian work conceived in 1981 and published in 1987, in which he tried to imagine life after nuclear war.