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“Anna wrote to her father that she found her new land “a barbarous country where the houses are gloomy, the churches ugly, and the customs revolting.” Paris under Henry I was clearly not Constantinople, but more importantly, in Anna’s eyes, it did not rank even with Kyiv.”
― The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
― The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
“During the years that both Stalin and Hitler were in power, more people were killed in Ukraine than anywhere else in the bloodlands, or in Europe, or in the world.”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
“Єдина свобода на цьому світі – це свобода творця. Але творців катастрофічно бракує. Дехто навіть не здогадується про силу, котра дрімає в ньому, пробиваючись крізь сон життя.”
― Сни Юлії і Германа. Кенізберзький щоденник
― Сни Юлії і Германа. Кенізберзький щоденник
“The Kremlin idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside its walls.”
― Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
― Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
“In the middle of Europe in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered some fourteen million people. The place where all of the victims died, the bloodlands, extends from central Poland to western Russia, through Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States.”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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