Eastern Europe


The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Tiger's Wife
The Historian
The Door
Crime and Punishment
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Anna Karenina
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
The Master and Margarita
The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
The Metamorphosis
Too Loud a Solitude
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Steven Magee
Ukraine is known as the ‘bread basket of Europe’.
Steven Magee

Christopher Hitchens
And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was especially high in the secret police and 'security' departments, where no doubt revenge played its own part, as did the ideological attachment to Communism that was so strong among internationally minded Jews at that period: Jews like David Szmulevski. There were reasonably strong indigenous Communis ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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