
This podcast is based on a book about a region that no longer exists. I set out to recover the past of Eastern Ukraine, but instead found myself preserving a present that was disappearing before my eyes. After 2022, this world was largely destroyed by the war in Ukraine. The book is built on my diaries, written in real time from 2017 to February 24, 2022 - a record of a place, its people, and a li... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 15 | Founded | 4 months ago |
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| Language | Number of Listeners | Categories | BooksArts |

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The episode features a recording of "Lullaby" (a Rumeí folk song) performed by Veronika Bondar from the settlement of Nikolske at the 8th Festival of Greek Son... more
The second season is devoted to Mariupol and its surroundings. It is especially dear to me: after 2014, after the occupation of Donetsk, Mariupol became what the Germans would call my Ersatzheimat-a substitute for home. This city, this sea, these peo... more
When I was writing this book-before the full-scale war-I instinctively titled the chapter about Huliaipole and Makhno “The Order of the Thistle”, drawing an analogy with Scotland's Order of the Thistle. Just as instinctively, I adopted its motto—the ... more
When I was recording this episode about Huliaipole in the time of Batko Makhno, the words “Всі хлопці загинули” (“All the boys were killed”), “Які хлопці були, як в ідею вірили” (“What fine young men they were, how deeply they believed in the idea”),... more
Huliaipole is one of my favorite episodes in this book, and Nestor Makhno is one of my favorite figures in Ukrainian history. After 2022, the Makhno Museum was destroyed. On October 1, 2025, Huliaipole was awarded the honorary title "Hero City of Ukr... more
And on the Sich a wise German
Plants little potatoes,
And you buy them,
Eat them to your health,
And praise Zaporizhzhia.
But by whose blood
That land has been soaked,
So that the potatoes grow,
You do not care.
As long as it is good
For your vegetab... more
Kamianka–Bilmak. The forestry reserve “Kamianska Dacha” - these steppes and forests lie on the borderland between the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. For centuries, Ukrainians, Germans, Jews, and Poles lived side by side here. A frontier between wa... more
Kamianka-Bilmak. The forestry reserve “Kamianska Dacha” - these steppes and forests lie on the borderland between the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. For centuries, Ukrainians, Germans, Jews, and Poles lived side by side here. A frontier between wa... more
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