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Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Ukraine

Sliding on the Snow Stone

Andy Szpuk

Kindle Edition | Pages: 238 pages

Rating: 4.09 | 351 Users | 54 Reviews

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Title	:	Sliding on the Snow Stone
Author	:	Andy Szpuk
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 238 pages
Published	:	September 21st 2011 by Bandura Books
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Cultural. Ukraine

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It is astonishing that anyone lived this story. It is even more astonishing that anyone survived it. Stefan grows up in the grip of a raging famine. Stalin’s Five Year Plan brings genocide to Ukraine – millions of people starve to death. To free themselves from the daily terrors of Soviet rule, Stefan and his friends fight imaginary battles in nearby woods to defend their land. The games they play are their only escape. ‘Sliding on the Snow Stone’ is the true story of Stefan's extraordinary journey across a landscape of hunger, fear and devastating loss. With Europe on the brink of World War Two, Stefan and his family pray they'll survive in their uncertain world. They long to be free. (In 1932-33, as part of their drive towards industrialisation, the Soviet Union demanded impossibly high requisitions of grain from rural areas in Ukraine. In a deliberate act of genocide, Ukrainian smallholdings were stripped of food, and the population began to perish, with some estimates as high as 10 million deaths, from starvation. In Ukraine, this atrocity became known as the Holodomor (death by hunger). The following years saw Soviet purges and terrors resulting in the elimination of academics and intellectuals, or of anyone who spoke out against Soviet rule. When World War Two arrived on Ukraine’s doorstep, many people viewed the Nazis as liberators – a view that was quickly proved wrong. ‘Sliding on the Snow Stone’ is Stefan’s personal account of a historical period drenched in the blood of a nation, and of his yearning for freedom).

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Here, a son honours his father. In these memoirs of an old man we go on a journey to freedom with one Ukrainian, from the evil of Stalin's terror through the cold brutality of the Nazis. We are taken across the steppes and into the wild Carpathians by a boy who carries two things: his grief, and his longing for a free homeland. It is a story that enters a reader's heart and stays there.

"Sliding on the Snow Stone" by Andy Szpuk is an amazing memoir of a young boy from the Ukraine, who comes through Soviet-caused starvation only to be torn into the madness that was WWII for the Ukrainian people. Told with astonishing detail and a captivating voice the story gets to explain what life was like living under and between the horrors of the Soviet and the Nazi regimes.It is the tragic story of the nation as much as it is that of his family, mis-treated and fallen victim to injustices

I have a great interest in reading about WW-2 times, the lives that were going on behind the war and the horror. This book is a recounting of a man's life in Ukraine during Stalin's genocide and his subsequent journey from the Ukraine with his father, running from both the Nazis and the Russian army, his life in between and the return to his childhood home when he was much older.

Pretty good, yet a little more lengthy than necessary . Memoir of a Ukrainian boy who's family was persecuted by Stalin and the Soviets then the Nazi's, forced to leave his mother behind, his brother was taken away and he watched his father die. He survived to tell the story at 86 years old.



I found the first about 60% of this book gripping and hard to put down. The plight of Ukranians under Soviet rule is something we hear little about - especially what happened in the early 1930s. We, here in the privileged and relatively safe 21st century of the West can only read, aghast; living through something like this is beyond our comprehension. Mr Szpuk's experience of the war kept me reading even when I was too tired to do so. One of my very favourite types of book is the historical

[Full disclosure: Andy Szpuk sent me an ebook copy of his book in exchange for an honest review.]Im not a person that cries easily anymore, but this book had me in tears verging on hysterical sobs. The only reason I didnt break down completely at some parts was because there was someone in the room. Had I been reading this while staying up alone in the evening, I would have been a complete mess.Andy Szpuk wrote his father, Stefans, memoirs and I imagine that it was a hard story both to tell and