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    The Road To Hell. (Ukraine. What I Saw, What I Know, What I Think: Book 1)
    The Road To Hell. (Ukraine. What I Saw, What I Know, What I Think: Book 1)
    The Road To Hell. (Ukraine. What I Saw, What I Know, What I Think: Book 1)
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    The Road To Hell. (Ukraine. What I Saw, What I Know, What I Think: Book 1)

    By Aza Zello

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    Soon after Ukraine become an independent country, Washington Post published the survey of US high school students that included multiple choice answer to the question: “What is Ukraine?” The answer that got highest score was “Some kind of sexual organ”. Another thing I remember from that time was the analytical article, which concluded that if Ukraine and Russia reunite, it would be beginning of the Soviet Union recreation – the worst nightmare for US policymakers.
    Now most Westerners know that Ukraine is “a nice but poor, democracy building country, bullied by neighboring Russia”. Mainstream media draws this picture for many years with little objectivity and a lot of plain lies about Ukraine and Ukraine-Russia conflict. This is the reason I decided to present my own story.
    Both books of the series mix personal recollections of Ukraine born author, hushed by major media events, and author's understanding of past, present and future of his country. Book one covers period from the USSR breakup and the appearance of independent Ukraine, (with just a brief introduction about 1000 years of earlier history) up to regime change in Kiev in 2014. Book two is about the different Ukraine that emerged from the previous one after 2014.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAza Zello
    Release dateJun 21, 2020
    ISBN9780463716991
    The Road To Hell. (Ukraine. What I Saw, What I Know, What I Think: Book 1)
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    Aza Zello

    My biography presented here is different from biographies of other, "normal" writers. Normal writers rarely try to hide their identity, Aza do. Aza was born in the USSR, in what is now Ukraine and remembers the rhyming joke from Brezhnev's era: "To write on the toilet walls / Unfortunately the trend is not new / But what can we do / When only here is freedom of speech".Ironically "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes" (attributed to Mark Twain), and 30 years after the breakup of the Soviet Union it is still dangerous to tell truth in Ukraine, painted by Western media as "freedom loving and democratic".Aza leaves safely in one of Western democracies but visits friends and relatives in Ukraine regularly and for this reason do not want to put a real name of the author on a book title page. Name Aza Zello is derived from the character of the great M. Bulgakov novel "Master and Margaret".The text below this line is Aza's fictional biography for Russian speakers not worth of translation.-----Я родилась не слишком привлекательным мальчиком, в семье писателя, имя которого слишком известно, что бы его можно было тут упомянуть. Едва научившись ходить, я доковыляло до зеркала, критически оценил увиденное и твёрдо решил превратить себя в красивую девушку. Я добилась этого простым, невероятным усилием своей железной воли. Взгляните на фото и вы убедитесь, что это удалось. Как впрочем и всё остальное, за что брался этот талантливейший ребёнок.В том возрасте, когда другие дети только учатся разговаривать, юная я уже писала свой первый роман. К несчастью для человечества, он не сохранился. Чуть подростя, я попыталась экспериментально проверить теорию негорения рукописей. Результат этого эксперимента, оказал глубочайшее влияние на многие отрасли знаний. Он прочно вошел не только в учебники торетического негорения, но и в инструкции пожарной безопасности. Есть даже мнение, что один из основополагающих педагогических принципов: «Родители, не оставляйте детей без присмотра», тоже возник в результате анализа моих экспериментальных подходов. Сегодня все знают - Аза неопровержимо доказала, что в деревянном доме теория негорения рукописей не выполняется.После обсуждения реультатов эксперимента с отцом, я долго не садилась за письменный стол. И лабораторный тоже. Вообще недели две не садилась. Мне было неинтересно встречать односельчан, временно расселенных по окрестным гостиницам. В один из дней я наконец села. Одни говорили, что я села в автобус, другие, что на крыло пролетающего самолёта. А я просто уехала странствовать чтобы познать тайны мироздания. И вот я вернулась - a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

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      Pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian hate-filled screed full of lies and distortions, clearly a pro-Russian hit job.

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      бред сивой кобылы от путинской шлюхи, пропитанный ложью и ненависью

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      Claptrap propaganda thinly veiled as an historical account. Loaded with emotive words that shine a light on the bias of this Kremlin loving author. Don't waste your time reading this. I would suggest using it as toilet paper, but as it's a e-book, it's not even useful for that.

      The author suggests that the Ukrainian revolution of 2013-2014 was for rich students to be able to study at expensive universities in Europe. What a silly idea from a silly author whose English skills are an embarrassment to Ukrainians anywhere.

      Avoid this if you want to save your sanity.

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    The Road To Hell. (Ukraine. What I Saw, What I Know, What I Think - Aza Zello

    The Road to Hell

    (Ukraine. What I Saw, What I Know, What I Think: Book 1)

    Copyright 2020 Aza Zello

    Published by Aza Zello at Smashwords

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    Table of Contents

    Dostoevsky Prophecy

    Preface

    Few bits of the history

    USSR breakup

    From state plans to free markets

    Vouchers and investors

    President Kuchma

    Corruption

    Planet of Apes revisited

    Somebody’s problem, somebody’s opportunity

    Crime unlimited

    Junkyard economy

    Ukrainization

    Rise of the nationalism

    Ukraine is no Russia

    President Yushchenko

    Teaching to hate

    Brainwashing factory

    President Yanukovych

    EuroMaidan

    Barber who changed history

    Dostoevsky Prophecy

    "According to my inner conviction, the most complete and insurmountable - Russia will never have, and never have had, such haters, envious people, slanderers, and even obvious enemies, like all these Slavic tribes, as soon as Russia will set them free, and Europe will agree to recognize them liberated ...

    They will begin, upon liberation, their new life, precisely from what they beg for from Europe, from England and Germany, for example, the guarantee and protection of their freedom, and while in a concert of the European powers there will be Russia, but for protection from Russia will they ask.

    They will certainly begin that inside themselves, if not directly out loud, they will announce to themselves and convince themselves that they are not obliged to Russia with the slightest gratitude, on the contrary, that they escaped from the power of Russia during the conclusion of the peace due to the intervention of a European concert, and if Europe had not intervened, Russia would have swallowed them right away, "having in mind the expansion of borders and the foundation of the great All-Slavic empire on the enslavement of the Slavs by a greedy, cunning and barbaric Great Russian tribe ...

    It will be especially pleasant for the liberated Slavs to express and trumpet the whole world that they are educated tribes capable of the highest European culture, while Russia is a barbaric country, gloomy northern colossus, not even of pure Slavic blood, persecutor and hater of European civilization...

    Between themselves, these countries will always quarrel, forever envy each other and intrigue against each other. Of course, in the moment of some serious disaster, they all will certainly turn to Russia for help. No matter how they hate, gossip and slander us for Europe, flirting with her and assuring her of love, they will always feel instinctively (of course, in a moment of trouble, and not before) that Europe is a natural enemy of their unity, was it and will always remain, and that they existence in the world, is, of course, because there is a huge magnet - Russia, which, irresistibly attracting them all to itself, and thus support their integrity and unity. "

    Fyodor Dostoevsky. - The diary of a writer. - Nov. 1877.

    Preface

    Soon after Ukraine become an independent country, Washington Post published the survey of US high school students that included multiple choice answer to the question: What is Ukraine? The answer that got highest score was Some kind of sexual organ. Another thing I remember from that time was the analytical article, which concluded that if Ukraine and Russia reunite, it would be beginning of the Soviet Union recreation – the worst nightmare for US policymakers.

    Now most Westerners know that Ukraine is a nice but poor, democracy building country, bullied by neighboring Russia. Mainstream media draws this picture for many years. I was a long-time subscriber of Washington Post and mostly believe in what WP wrote about events in such places like Somalia or Ivory Coast. Then I read a total bullshit about situation in my native country (from which I just returned from one of my regular month-long visits that I have at least once every year). I was so naive that spent hours writing and polishing the letter about my own experience from the latest visit. The result was something like Thank you for sharing your opinion, but newspaper space is limited... . It was around 2014. Since then I see little objectivity and a lot of plain lies about Ukraine and Ukraine-Russia conflict. This is the reason I decided to present my own story.

    My native language is Russian, but I am writing this in English, which I did not master despite spending half of my life in English speaking countries. Russian speakers mostly know that story. Those who know but refuse to speak Russian are not my readers. I understand that there is no chance to raise my English plank even to Nabokov level but did my best to remove really bad English during editing. Hope you will find the story interesting and

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