The paperback of The Quiet That Remains is now live.
A Ukrainian history told through fragments: documents, letters, silences... tracing one family across the turbulent twentieth century.
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A 1931 Soviet poster imagined collectivisation as abundance and progress; golden grain, harmony, inevitability. But by 1931–32, that world was already fiction.
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“The suitcase was never meant to be opened.”
I grew up with quiet stories. Fragments more than explanations. Years later the suitcase appeared, with papers that carried the outline of a century: famine, repression, war, exile.
The book grew from that.
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The suitcase that began the book.
Inside it were the papers that traced a century of upheaval in Ukraine - and the quieter forms of endurance that carried people through.
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A 1940s notebook: diagrams of engines, notes on combustion and motion.
After famine and war, repair and technology became a kind of hope.
Today, Ukraine’s engineers again work through the dark to keep things running.
Continuity written in ink and graphite.
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Union membership card
8 November 1932: 93 years today, Stalin orders that goods to Ukrainian villages be halted until grain quotas are met; deepening that winter's man-made famine.
A union card for an accountant in the milling trade survives from that world of ledgers and grain.
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Arras, France - c. 1950.
A small Ukrainian dance group - friends, siblings, and neighbours in exile - wearing vyshyvanky.
Each stitch carried a place, a pattern, a memory.
In exile, it became a quiet statement of remaining.
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“The soul suffers. The trembita rings out.”
2 April 1950, Newhaven, England.
A Ukrainian poem, Ксеню, copied by hand in exile, echoing the folk song Hutsulka Ksenya, a Carpathian melody of love and belonging.
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c. 1945–48: Ukrainian print of a collage made in a Displaced-Persons camp in Bavaria.
Soviet newspaper clippings, repatriation appeals, political messaging - rearranged into new meaning.
The battle for language never ends; it only changes form.
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Arbeitskarte, showing fingerprints, portrait photography, and bureaucratic markings/stamps.
1944: A Ukrainian Arbeitskarte.
The war’s paperwork outlived the war.
In every stamp and fingerprint; an uneasy record of control and endurance.
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What remains of a nation when its history is silenced?
The Quiet That Remains traces Ukraine’s turbulent twentieth century through the lives of one ordinary family - from empire and famine to exile and renewal.
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1940: Viktor’s conscription papers, issued just before the front shifted again.
One of thousands of fragments tracing Ukraine’s century between empires.
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Scythian golden comb, 2,500 years old, uncovered in eastern Ukraine. Dated to the 5th–4th century BCE, it showcases the remarkable craftsmanship of this nomadic culture.
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🟦🟨 The fight continues, but so does the legacy.
💬 Do you have a story, photo, or memory of supporting the 93rd Brigade?
Share it in the comments — your voice helps keep our history alive.
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Date of unveiling: September 30, 2001 Material: Bronze Sculptor: Valeriy Medvedev Architects: Roman Kukharenko, Yuriy Melnychuk The "Executed Children" memorial stands opposite the exit of the Dorohozhychi metro station. The bronze composition depicts a young girl and broken children's toys, symbolizing the tragedy of the children who perished in Babyn Yar during the Nazi occupation of Kyiv. As of today, the memorial remains an integral part of the Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve, which is dedicated to preserving the memory of Holocaust victims and other tragic events associated with this site. Taken on July 24, 2013
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A Galician castle chamber in Ukraine has seen the light of day.
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Kiev Ukraine, 1980. From the archives of my great aunt Lillian Michaluk. #kiev #ukraine #ukrainehistory #USSR #khreschatyk #kodachrome
WWII scars run deep here—Himmler used the region as a testbed for Nazi resettlement. Yet the city endures. And FC Polissya is part of that ongoing resilience. 💛💚
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"Ukrainians are tired of believing, because the more they believe, the more they are deceived. The time has come to change blind faith to calculation."
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