Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Andrey Kurkov - Nothing Bad Ever Happened - How Russia Whitewashes u0026 Repeats Worst Crimes of History" video.

Interesting when Mr. Kurkov mentions the book he wrote about civilian life in Donbas (because most of the other 200 books were military stories) that his book was reviewed negatively by Ukrainian "progressives". I am a Donbas IDP in west Ukraine and I have always had a good experience with people in west Ukraine when they find out I am from Donetska Oblast, but I am not Ukrainian, I moved here a decade ago, so maybe they treat me differently because I am not a real "Donbas" person. MY wife on the other hand is a real "Donbas" person (from Makiivka originally) and she gets the same nice treatment too. But I f do remember Rick the Ukrainian saying when he left Makiivka for west Ukraine a decade ago people used to call him a "terrorist" or something like that. But times have changed from a deacade ago with the war in Doonbas to the full scale war now. When my wife and I got run out of Makiivka by the separatists we just moved across the contact line, until 2022, when we ended up in west Ukraine. Mr, Kurkov has given me the idea that maybe I should write a book about civilian life in Donbas from a expat resident point of view, but I am not much of a writer. Got a huge library of photo's covering a decade and some good stories to go with them.
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@kadovax6567 Yes. The book he wrote about life in Donbas is called "The Grey Bees". Go to the 4:35 min mark and you'll hear him state that.
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@kadovax6567 There is also a compendium of all his war stories called "Війна " (War), that includes the Grey Bees and some other war books he wrote. That one might be worth looking into as well, if there is an English version.
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