What if your childhood felt more like a battlefield than a home? What if violence was normal, alcohol was survival, and every day felt like a fight you might not win? This is the raw, brutally honest memoir of a young man who grew up in one of the harshest corners of Eastern Europe - a world filled with cheap vodka, poverty, street fights, broken families, cold rooms, and colder people. A world where nobody smiled, nobody believed, and nobody expected to escape. Roman Kartasheuski was not supposed to succeed. He wasn't born with money, privilege, or stability. He wasn't protected. He had no "safe childhood." He had only survival. But he refused to stay where life tried to keep him. Through violence, betrayal, addiction to computer games, bullying, humiliation, toxic relationships, and brutal jobs, Roman made a decision: He was going to climb out of hell - or die trying. This memoir is not just a story. It's a blueprint. A guide for anyone trapped in darkness, poverty, addiction, or hopelessness.