"What they know, they do not desire," said the ancient Roman poet Ovid, who once walked the southern lands of Ukraine... Margarita Dovhan is a Ukrainian journalist who has endured much over nearly a century. In 1965, the communist-imperial Moscow authorities expelled her from the Union of Journalists for "anti-Soviet and bourgeois-nationalist" tendencies and forbade her from engaging in creative work, yet she never stopped... This book serves as a vivid example of a former textbook on the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It is a collection of sketches and vignettes from the life of the author, her relatives, and friends—Ukrainian dissidents, artists, and freedom fighters. Perhaps, while reading these stories, some will reflect on just how much the "cheap" sausage in the "bright" past truly cost. In every painfully vivid, inhumane life episode, the evil is revealed in its totality, its universality. By learning one fact, we will see, understand, and fight the entire misfortune. To prevent the world from dozing in false comforts or simple indifference, the warning bells often ring with urgency.

This edition is intended for a broad audience. It is not meant to frighten but to awaken memory and inspire the energy for righteous action.

80 pages. Hardcover.