The cover of the last book of the publishing house Humanitas Tatyana Niculescu can be easily misled. It’s like a movie poster, something like, say, Hanover Street. Anyway, for a Hollywood-style mega-production that should make you cry. And, of course, bring lots and lots of money. It depicts a station platform, a train, which is probably pulled by a locomotive, and two young people – He and She – who say goodbye during the war, that is, during the second great fire. I tell myself hopefully goodbyealthough they are more than aware that it is goodbye can always turn into a Farewell.

This, by the way, was the case of Brian Spencer’s parents. The main character of the book. Whose father died in an air mission. Walter Desmond Spencer died before Brian was born. Walter married early. He also knew how easy it was in those days TO goodbye can happen Farewell. Brian Spencer is An Englishman from the North Station. What once passed through Bucharest also passed through Iasi, shortly after that fateful day in February when Putin’s Russia attacked Ukraine. A country whose president previously made a name for himself as a stand-up comedian. Spencer would like Robin Williams to play the role of Volodymyr Zelensky in the film.

In the spring of 2022, Brian Spencer wanted to go to Kyiv at all costs. His wish came true some 20 years after he was actively involved and wounded in the war in the former Yugoslavia. And after seeing the exposed famous piece of paper on which the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote down a few percent a long time ago. Thus demarcating spheres of influence, writing how much belongs to the Soviet Union and how much to the West after the end of the war.

The meeting with the newspaper with the reason, with the percentages that were prepared there, and what in 1946 the same Churchill would say meant the fall of the Iron Curtain, all this happened during an open exhibition in National Archives, Brian Spencer pointed out profoundly. Much like the death of the father he wanted to be like had marked him. So Spencer spent much of his life learning all he could about what he called Tolstoy’s conference. It began on October 9, 1944. Conference Tolstoy, named after the author of the novel War and peace and character creator Pierre Bezukhov and Natasha Rostova represented the second meeting between Churchill and Stalin. It was after 1942. Tolstoy’s conference it was a case of Churchill not writing with a pen Conway Stewart with which he never parted, but with a pencil in the equipment of soldiers of Great Britain, or rather those of Royal forcewhat percentages are we talking about?

The head of the Yugoslav partisans, Josip Broz Tito, was supposed to participate in the meeting in question. What, according to Churchill, rose. The English erase their English, the French get out of difficult situations to on the brakeinlight, Eastern Europeans are also fleeing. This is the meaning of Churchill’s vorbei. Eastern Europeans rises. However, Brian Spencer met Tito as a teenager. When he got to a camp set up on the orders of the Yugoslav communist leader for war orphans in England.

Brian Spencer wants to know why Churchill wrote the percentages in question. He understood that this was a moment that cost the Eastern European space dearly and from which, as the main character of Tatiana Niculescu’s novel believes, the Soviet aggression in Ukraine originates. That’s what it’s called special operation. The tragic moment in question is placed in the context of a well-known novel – Animal farm. Moreover, in the historical reconstruction that appeared on, many influences and book information Humanitas. After which we are also provided with a conclusion. “Indeed, Churchill and Stalin each of them simultaneously played the ace of spades. They cheated beautifully, each hoping to win. This bluff was best understood by the people of Eastern Europe, who had to experience the reality of interest, the Iron Curtain, the Cold War, and the devastating consequences of the transition after 1989.” – Read the entire article and comment on Contributors.ro