Вітряки і Дон Кіхоти. Українська правда 25 (2025)
Textbook
Edited by Sevgil Musaieva, Mykhailo Kryhel
Art directed and illustrated by Sergiy Maidukov
200 x 260 mm, hardcover
376 pages
Language(s): Ukrainian
Publisher: ist publishing
A reconstruction of the three longest days of February 2022 — how the full-scale war that no one believed in began. How Ukraine lost and regained Snake Island, and how the Ukrainian Neptune missile destroyed the Russian fleet flagship, the cruiser Moskva. How a HUR Special Forces operative swam for 14 hours in the open sea. How fishermen from Strakholissia saved two thousand people from starvation and occupation. How ordinary old lady Polina Rayko from Oleshky became a star of naive art, and Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit from Kryvorivnia overcame the Gulag.
These are just a few of the 30 stories about a country which accepted a battle against fictional windmills and very real dragons.
The book is a journey that spans a quarter of a century. Through turbulence, the bitterness of defeat, and the warmth of hope. Through revolutions and war. Through ups and downs. From despair and the infantile thoughts like "it will sort itself out somehow" and "what can I change" to the realization of one's identity and one's own power.