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This compelling short-read recounts award-winning author and correspondent Owen Matthews’ journey across war-torn Ukraine in the summer of 2014. But not only is this a professional journalist's account: it is an insightful and personal journey into the history of this blood-soaked land of curses and new beginnings.
Matthews retraces the roots of his mother’s tragedy-struck Ukrainian-born family and discovers that "though we believe we think with our rational mind, part of us – a deep part – thinks with the blood.” He understands this country in a way few other foreign correspondents can, and tells the story of Europe’s latest civil war through the eyes of an eccentric cast of participants, from a sic-fi novelist turned general in the rebel capital of Donetsk to a the Jewish leader of an Ukrainian ultranationalist party in Kiev.
It is an extraordinary insight into the disturbing political events of 2014 that tore Ukraine apart and sent Russia spiraling into a vortex of reactionary nationalism. Matthews warns of the long term ramifications for not just for the people of the region, but for all of us in the rest of the world too.
Matthews retraces the roots of his mother’s tragedy-struck Ukrainian-born family and discovers that "though we believe we think with our rational mind, part of us – a deep part – thinks with the blood.” He understands this country in a way few other foreign correspondents can, and tells the story of Europe’s latest civil war through the eyes of an eccentric cast of participants, from a sic-fi novelist turned general in the rebel capital of Donetsk to a the Jewish leader of an Ukrainian ultranationalist party in Kiev.
It is an extraordinary insight into the disturbing political events of 2014 that tore Ukraine apart and sent Russia spiraling into a vortex of reactionary nationalism. Matthews warns of the long term ramifications for not just for the people of the region, but for all of us in the rest of the world too.
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Värvikas mälestusteraamat armastusest, surmast ja reetmisest… Ühel 1937. aasta südasuvisel päeval suudles Boriss Bibikov oma kaht väikest tütart, enne kui sõitis Musta mere äärde tuusikuga puhkama – ja kadus. Üks tema tütreist, Ljudmila, armus Moskvas külma sõja tippaegadel pikka noorde välismaalasesse ning alguse sai ohtlik ja kirglik armulugu. Mõnikümmend aastat hiljem paneb ta poeg Owen Matthews, kes töötas üheksakümnendatel aastatel Moskvas reporterina, tükkhaaval kokku vanaisa teekonna läbi Stalini nn puhastuste julma maailma ning jutustab oma vanemate külma sõja aegse armastuse loo nende südamesse tungivate kirjade ning mälestuste abil. „Stalini lapsed“ on karmi elutõega värvikas mälestusteraamat noormehe püüdlustest mõista oma vanemate elu ning tolle kummalise maa ajalugu, kus nad elasid.