Klitschko Page #2

I know that lots of people

can barely tell

the brothers apart.

Many people

think they're twins,

NATALIYA KLITSCHKO

WIFE OF VITALI KLITSCHKO

but really

they're very different.

When Vitali gets

something into his head,

he'll follow it through.

Wladimir has his

own goals, too,

but he's a lot more

cautious and diplomatic.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

Crazy.

(WHISTLE BLOWS)

Due to my father's job

we moved around a lot

from one place to the next.

So I attended a lot

of different schools.

(WLADIMIR, SR SPEAKING)

At each new garrison school

that Vitali went to,

he would get teased

and picked on.

All I could do was

to teach my eldest son

how to stand up for himself.

I drummed it into him

that if he was going to fight,

then he had to win.

Losing was not an option.

(NADESHDA SPEAKING)

We never dreamed that one day

our children would be

professional boxers.

One day, a mother

came to see us at home.

Her son had a broken nose.

I asked how it had happened,

but he just stood there in silence.

So I told Vitali

to apologise.

When he said

that he wouldn't, I asked him why,

and he said,

"He deserved it!

"He threw my hat in a puddle

after I'd warned him not to.

"When he did it again,

I punched him."

UKRAINE - KIEV

FORMER MILITARY AIRBASE - ZHULYANY

(WLADIMIR SPEAKING GERMAN)

My father was

transferred here to Kiev

from Prague in

the former Czechoslovakia.

Just for a couple of weeks.

Then we were supposed

to get a flat in the city.

That couple of weeks

turned into exactly two years.

For those two years,

we lived in this room.

Five of us:

my grandmother, mother,

father and brother.

My uncle, too, sometimes.

We had that room,

and a kitchen that was here.

There was a dividing wall,

which isn't there any more.

So this was the kitchen.

No shower and no toilet.

The toilet was outside.

It was in this

corridor that Vitali said,

"Wladimir, put the gloves on!

Let's do some boxing."

I was just 10

or 11 years old.

I was standing just here.

I remember like it was yesterday.

Vitali was standing opposite

and he punched me.

I didn't like that at all.

It made me scared of boxing.

(WLADIMIR, SR

SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

I often took them shooting

at the military base.

I showed them how

to handle a weapon,

how to load a pistol,

aim properly

and work the trigger.

(WLADIMIR SPEAKING GERMAN)

Of course,

Vitali was the one

who was always

getting into trouble.

He messed around

with lots of things.

One time,

on a military base,

we found some grenades

and live ammunition.

We threw them into a fire.

It made a lot of noise.

It was fun.

(VITALI SPEAKING)

One time we found

an anti-tank mine.

It was a huge disc.

I took it home with me

and the only place I

could find to hide it

was under my father's bed.

I went to bed

and then I heard

my father shouting.

He came to me and

grabbed me by the ear.

He said, "What is that?"

I said, "It's a mine."

"Did you bring it in here?"

I said, "Yes."

Our parents were strict,

so he ended up paying for that

with a belt on his bottom.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

Comrade Colonel!

Reporting for duty

in the clean-up operation at Chernobyl.

(WLADIMIR, SR SPEAKING)

The first report just said

that something

bad had happened.

The alarm was raised.

I was the leader

of an air force unit

that was immediately relocated

to the scene of the incident.

CHERNOBYL:

April 1986

Directly after the explosion,

several workers were sent

to the scene of the accident.

Using just their bare hands,

they had to clear

the radioactive debris.

(DETECTOR CRACKLING)

Come on, we're going.

You, too, get out of here!

(WLADIMIR, SR SPEAKING)

We dropped lead

onto the reactor

until it was

completely covered.

(WLADIMIR SPEAKING GERMAN)

They flew day and night.

Their flight path was

exactly 100 metres from here,

so we heard them

day and night.

But after a while you

stopped hearing them,

because you'd got

so used to the sound.

(WLADIMIR, SR

SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

From the very beginning,

the government tried

to cover up the truth

and play down the situation.

We were given the impression

that it was all under control.

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

The vehicles and helicopters

then came back here

and first had to

be washed down.

All of the radioactive water

flowed into huge pools

and I played in those pools

with my paper boats.

(WLADIMIR, SR

SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

It was a huge tragedy.

Children were evacuated

as a first priority.

We sent Wladimir

to a holiday camp on the Sea ofAzov.

Those who were

able to leave Kiev

took the opportunity to do so,

but if you're a soldier

you have to fulfil your duties.

Many of my comrades

received fatal

doses of radiation.

They're no longer alive.

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

Our father spent

a lot of time at Chernobyl

and Chernobyl got him,

too, in the end.

The doctors said,

"It's the result of Chernobyl.

"Cancer."

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

This is our gallery

with all our photos.

Chuck Norris came

to visit us once.

Western martial arts were

banned for a long time in the Soviet Union.

You could be prosecuted

for practising them.

We were even banned from

watching western martial arts films

but as everyone knows,

ANDREJ SCHISTOW:

KICKBOXING COACH

forbidden fruits

taste the sweetest.

(GRUNTING AND YELLING)

(VITALI SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

We were crazy

about that sport.

We went to karate lessons

and our parents

made us kimonos out of some white cloth.

We were always

screaming "Kiai!"

and running around everywhere.

We got wooden boards

and tried to smash them.

They had posters

of western stars in their rooms,

like Arnold Schwarzenegger

and Chuck Norris.

All of their idols

were wonderfully athletic

and my children wanted

to be exactly like them.

Their room was plastered

with photos and posters.

(ANDREJ SPEAKING)

One day some boys turned up

to one of my illegal

training sessions.

As I was showing

them the basics, one boy wasn't following me.

He was

completely uncoordinated in his movements.

If you told him to go left,

he would go right.

He always did the opposite

of what he was told.

That was the first time

I met Vitali Klitschko.

THE KICKBOXING BAN

IN THE SOVIET UNION IS ABOLISHED IN 1989

(CROWD CHEERING)

He became Ukrainian

heavyweight champion

and then champion

of the Soviet Union.

Then we were invited

to a contest in America.

The USA versus

the Soviet team.

FLORIDA:

WEST PALM BEACH:

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

I was brainwashed

when I was growing up.

Every morning at school

we had to write

about all the bad

things in America.

America was our enemy.

America meant capitalism,

where people treated

others like slaves.

We'd been fed all that

since kindergarten.

It was like

a trip to the moon.

We had heard

a lot about Coca-Cola

and when I tasted it

for the first time,

I felt I could

drink a whole bucket!

I was completely knocked out.

We could spend all day

in shopping malls

with our mouths hanging open,

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