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“З чорного чернігівського бору вони вийшли на низький берег Дніпра. Перед ними за Дніпром зʼявилась чарівнича, невимовно чудова панорама Києва. На високих горах скрізь стояли церкви, дзвіниці, неначе свічі палали проти ясного сонця золотими верхами. Саме проти їх стояла лавра, обведена білими високими мурованими стінами та будинками, й лисніла золотими верхами й хрестами, наче букет золотих квіток. Коло лаври ховались у долинах між горами пещери з своїми церквами, між хмарами садків та винограду. А там далі, на північ, на високому шпилі стояла церква Св. Андрея, вирізуючись всіма лініями на синьому небі: коло неї Михайлівське, Софія, Десятинна... Поділ, вганяючись рогом в Дніпро, неначе плавав на синій, прозорій воді з своїми церквами й будинками. Всі гори були ніби зумисне заквітчані зеленими садками й букетами золотоверхих церков. Їх заквітчала давня невмираюча українська історія, неначе рукою якогось великого артиста...”

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“In early Soviet times, when Kharkiv was the capital of the Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic, Moscow's policy of korenizatsiia - 'nativisation' - prompted a brief flourishing of a Ukrainian avant-garde, paywrights and poets and journalists attracted to this bustling city of industrial and trading fame, allowed to write in their own language at last. The policy was the Bolsheviks' attempt to endear this restive republic, and the others, to their rule. In this political environment, writers were elevated. This special treatment came, however, came with the heavy caveat of state control which was followed by repression - a story familiar across the Soviet Union. But in Kharkiv the axe fell quicker. Stalin grew tired of korenizatsiia and opted to wipe out the native intelligentsia instead. In the early 1930s, the party line shifted abruptly; Ukrainian 'bourgeois nationalism' was the new enemy. The purges began. The Soviet Union under Stalin's paranoid control regressed to Tsarist ways. Russification and centralisation, brutal orders issued by Moscow and carried out by its secret police.”

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“later i sat in the mosque balcony as the sun rose, watching while it unpicked the dark and misty folds of the forest and coloured the Bashgul river. We were all overcome by the fabulous richness of the landscape, the opulence of the wooden architecture, the yellow green coombes of ripening corn, the glistening trees.”

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Book:The Light Garden of the Angel King: Travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin
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“Former civilians did not anticipate how disoriented they would feel as they lost access to their hobbies and interests while being drilled into a pattern of uniformity and sameness. It felt foreign to them to be told when to wake up, how to dress, what to eat (and when to eat it), the beat at which to march, and when to go to sleep. Privacy and individuality were the luxuries of civilians – not soldiers.”

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