I just finished reading The Memory Keeper of Kiev. I gave it five ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Erin Littleken is a new author on my list. Although it is a work of fiction but based on a true story, the book touched me in so many ways.
I wrote this quote on my notebook: Looking to the future doesn’t mean you have to forget the past. You can have both.
The author extensively wrote about the Holodomor Famine. It means death by hunger. Between 1932 and 1933, one in every eight Ukrainians died in this man-made famine.A devastatingly brutal Joseph Stalin’s assault against the Ukrainian people. Stalin wanted to subjugate the Ukrainian nationalism and culture which he saw as a treat to Soviet ideology. He introduced collectivism where the produce of the Ukrainian people were turned over to the Soviets. Stalin set an unrealistically high grain procurement quotas.
This horrific event is part of the historic backdrop shaping Ukrainians response to the Russian War. Putin is on the same path as Stalin was but the Ukrainian people are fighting back. There is another of Littleken book entitled The Lost Daughters of Ukraine, a sequel to her first book and it happened during WWII. I intend to find a copy and read it too.
Dreams And Escapes 