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"Auntie, auntie, give me an Easter egg, tomorrow I'm going to war" says a smiling boy, who moves from house to house together with his friends. "Nobody should have to go to war", counters an elderly woman. The joviality of the children stands in stark contrast to the real war that forced their parents and grandparents to flee South Ossetia back in 2008. Though they live in actual houses this is no ordinary village, instead it's a camp for internally-displaced refugees in Georgia. Serious though the matter might be, a certain comedy nevertheless prevails: thus we are treated to an elderly married couple in disagreement over the place that Stalin should occupy on a red carpet attached to the wall. Does Georgia's "most famous son" belong in the middle, or rather a little to the left in the corner? JT