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February 6, 2025
February 3, 2025
5-star review
“Love in Communism” is now available for just $4.99 as an eBook. You can READ more than two chapters for FREE on Amazon, click “Read sample” under the book cover:
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Communism...
Readers start to leave reviews about the novel. These reviews are not paid or moderated - the wide spread technique in book marketing business. I don’t want to pay for the reviews, I think that reviews must be genuine and grow naturally.
I am honored and excited to receive the first 5-star endorsement for “Love in Communism” from artist Kathi Shtraus Valär from Switzerland:
December 18, 2024 (GoodReads.com):
Angelika Regossi has a rare gift for uniting the micro and macro. Her book melts together the imagery with documentary and adds historical facts and statistics to family chronicles.
She allows her readers to witness the life experience of people predestined to be an object of an ignominious social experiment called the Soviet Union. Her narrative opens a deeper understanding of this seemingly alien turn in human history and leads us to the clear conclusion - never again.
Kathi Shtraus Valär
Switzerland
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Communism...
Readers start to leave reviews about the novel. These reviews are not paid or moderated - the wide spread technique in book marketing business. I don’t want to pay for the reviews, I think that reviews must be genuine and grow naturally.
I am honored and excited to receive the first 5-star endorsement for “Love in Communism” from artist Kathi Shtraus Valär from Switzerland:
December 18, 2024 (GoodReads.com):
Angelika Regossi has a rare gift for uniting the micro and macro. Her book melts together the imagery with documentary and adds historical facts and statistics to family chronicles.
She allows her readers to witness the life experience of people predestined to be an object of an ignominious social experiment called the Soviet Union. Her narrative opens a deeper understanding of this seemingly alien turn in human history and leads us to the clear conclusion - never again.
Kathi Shtraus Valär
Switzerland
February 1, 2025
Hungary to invest
Hungary is among the fastest-growing real estate markets in the world and number one in the European Union. In the last decade, Hungary witnessed a whopping 173% real estate price increase, according to the statistics of The European Parliament, and the potential is still there.
Experts believe that Hungarian real estate is cheaper than in other EU countries and the growth will continue coming years. Another attraction is that Hungary belongs to one of the most affordable countries to live in for expats. Not talking about the new Golden Visa opportunity (read the article below).
So, why not invest or move to Hungary?
As an example, here are two real estates to consider.
The first one is in Hungary’s most prestigious location – the capital Budapest’s second district:
https://realestatehungary.hu/34155522
And this one – is a countryside estate for two or three generations. Now it is run as Bed&Breakfast:
https://realestatehungary.hu/34140646
https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/20...
Experts believe that Hungarian real estate is cheaper than in other EU countries and the growth will continue coming years. Another attraction is that Hungary belongs to one of the most affordable countries to live in for expats. Not talking about the new Golden Visa opportunity (read the article below).
So, why not invest or move to Hungary?
As an example, here are two real estates to consider.
The first one is in Hungary’s most prestigious location – the capital Budapest’s second district:
https://realestatehungary.hu/34155522
And this one – is a countryside estate for two or three generations. Now it is run as Bed&Breakfast:
https://realestatehungary.hu/34140646
https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/20...
January 31, 2025
Ukraine voluntarily asked to belong to Russia
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
Ukraine voluntarily asked to belong to Russia.
It happened in January 1654, when the Treaty of Pereiaslav was concluded on the initiative of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. He was a freedom fighter against Polish–Lithuanian rulers. It started as a personal revanche, which grew into a massive uprising.
But Khmelnytsky, with his army of Cossacks was unable to keep control over huge freed territories and asked the Russian Tsar to take Malorossiya (old name of Ukraine) under Russian protection. “Forever all one” with the Russian state,”- unanimously decided Khmelnytsky and the Cossacks’ elite.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky is considered a national hero in Ukraine and Russia. There is even the Ukrainian state award “The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky” which rewards people for protecting the state sovereignty. Today, several high-ranking Ukrainian militaries are wearing this award.
Some Ukrainian historians criticize Bogdan Khmelnytsky for his aspiration to have a union with Russia and see his legacy as a disastrous move for Ukraine.
Copyright © 2025 by Angelika Regossi (for republishing contact: angelikaregossi@yahoo.com or via LinkedIn messenger)
Ukraine voluntarily asked to belong to Russia.
It happened in January 1654, when the Treaty of Pereiaslav was concluded on the initiative of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. He was a freedom fighter against Polish–Lithuanian rulers. It started as a personal revanche, which grew into a massive uprising.
But Khmelnytsky, with his army of Cossacks was unable to keep control over huge freed territories and asked the Russian Tsar to take Malorossiya (old name of Ukraine) under Russian protection. “Forever all one” with the Russian state,”- unanimously decided Khmelnytsky and the Cossacks’ elite.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky is considered a national hero in Ukraine and Russia. There is even the Ukrainian state award “The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky” which rewards people for protecting the state sovereignty. Today, several high-ranking Ukrainian militaries are wearing this award.
Some Ukrainian historians criticize Bogdan Khmelnytsky for his aspiration to have a union with Russia and see his legacy as a disastrous move for Ukraine.
Copyright © 2025 by Angelika Regossi (for republishing contact: angelikaregossi@yahoo.com or via LinkedIn messenger)
January 30, 2025
January 29, 2025
A new eBOOK is released!
A new eBOOK is released!
LOVE IN COMMUNISM takes you to another world with thrilling twists, deep emotional effects, and a chilling reality of being a woman in the USSR.
Get a new eBook easy read it now:
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Communism...
LOVE IN COMMUNISM takes you to another world with thrilling twists, deep emotional effects, and a chilling reality of being a woman in the USSR.
Get a new eBook easy read it now:
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Communism...
January 24, 2025
Ukraine means “borderland”
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
Ukraine means “borderland” from the Old Slavic word “krajina”. But modern linguists say “Ukraine” means the “country”.
From the beginning of the 14th century, Ukraine was called “Little Russia” or “Lesser Russia” (in Russian: “Malorossiya”), and Russia was called “Great Russia”, because Ukraine was smaller, less populated, and was treated as a Russian colony.
People were called accordingly: “little Russians” (“Malorossi”), and Russians were “Velikorossi”, which literary means “great Russians”.
But after the fall of the Russian Empire and the establishment of the USSR, “Malorossi” became “Ukrainians” due to the new communist ideology, which wanted to get rid of imperialistic terms.
Therefore, during the first USSR’s Population Census on December 17, 1926, all “Malorossi” were registered as “Ukrainians”, and “Velikorossi” became “Russians”.
Today terms “Malorossiya” and “Malorossi” are offensive to Ukrainians.
Copyright © 2025 by Angelika Regossi (for republishing contact: angelikaregossi@yahoo.com or via LinkedIn messenger)
Ukraine means “borderland” from the Old Slavic word “krajina”. But modern linguists say “Ukraine” means the “country”.
From the beginning of the 14th century, Ukraine was called “Little Russia” or “Lesser Russia” (in Russian: “Malorossiya”), and Russia was called “Great Russia”, because Ukraine was smaller, less populated, and was treated as a Russian colony.
People were called accordingly: “little Russians” (“Malorossi”), and Russians were “Velikorossi”, which literary means “great Russians”.
But after the fall of the Russian Empire and the establishment of the USSR, “Malorossi” became “Ukrainians” due to the new communist ideology, which wanted to get rid of imperialistic terms.
Therefore, during the first USSR’s Population Census on December 17, 1926, all “Malorossi” were registered as “Ukrainians”, and “Velikorossi” became “Russians”.
Today terms “Malorossiya” and “Malorossi” are offensive to Ukrainians.
Copyright © 2025 by Angelika Regossi (for republishing contact: angelikaregossi@yahoo.com or via LinkedIn messenger)
January 19, 2025
Hot read for cold winter days
I am packing my book for friends. We shall visit them today, and I shall bring it along with the homemade “Bird milk” cake - the delicacy from the USSR.
Why do I do it? They asked to bring something sweet and hot for a winter evening. So, I do. Sweet is a cake and hot is my book.
Try it: HOT READ “Love in Communism” FOR COLD WINTER DAYS.
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Communism...
Why do I do it? They asked to bring something sweet and hot for a winter evening. So, I do. Sweet is a cake and hot is my book.
Try it: HOT READ “Love in Communism” FOR COLD WINTER DAYS.
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Communism...
January 17, 2025
Jewish Ghetto Liberation
Retrospective: Liberation of the Jewish Ghetto in Budapest
Copyright © 2025 by Angelika Regossi (for republishing contact: angelikaregossi@yahoo.com or via LinkedIn messenger)
Today the capital of Hungary, Budapest is commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Jewish Ghetto by the Soviet Army. At the end of the Second World War, on January 17-18, 1945 people were freed from living in humiliating conditions, with a huge yellow David star on the top of the cloth to mark their Jewish identity.
Before the Ghetto liberation hundreds of thousands of Jews were sent from Hungary to the death concentration camps. In total Hungary lost about 600 000 Jews.
Nowadays Jewish headlines are daily breaking the news and I wanted to remind you about those dark days of history.
***
While working as a BBC reporter I covered many Jewish stories. For that, behind my back, I got the nickname “Jewish correspondent”.
What stunned me a lot, was the conversation with a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, who said:
“Hungarian Nazis were collecting people from all corners of at that time big Hungary. Jews were picked up in the countryside, especially from the territories that Hungary got back because of Hitler,” the man explained “Hitler returned Hungary what it lost because of Trianon, in exchange for loyalty.”
With the signing of The Treaty of Trianon in 1920, which ended World War I, Hungary lost two-thirds of its territory as a punishment for being on the wrong side during the war.
That Hungarian Holocaust survivor, was visibly aged when we spoke. He passed away a long time ago, but his voice is still in my ears.
Please read the stories, which were published and broadcast on BBC on January 18 and 22, 2005. At that time I worked under the name Agnes Bos (Агнеш Бос).
The reportage is in Russian but you can translate it with Google:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/news...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/news...
Copyright © 2025 by Angelika Regossi (for republishing contact: angelikaregossi@yahoo.com or via LinkedIn messenger)
Today the capital of Hungary, Budapest is commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Jewish Ghetto by the Soviet Army. At the end of the Second World War, on January 17-18, 1945 people were freed from living in humiliating conditions, with a huge yellow David star on the top of the cloth to mark their Jewish identity.
Before the Ghetto liberation hundreds of thousands of Jews were sent from Hungary to the death concentration camps. In total Hungary lost about 600 000 Jews.
Nowadays Jewish headlines are daily breaking the news and I wanted to remind you about those dark days of history.
***
While working as a BBC reporter I covered many Jewish stories. For that, behind my back, I got the nickname “Jewish correspondent”.
What stunned me a lot, was the conversation with a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, who said:
“Hungarian Nazis were collecting people from all corners of at that time big Hungary. Jews were picked up in the countryside, especially from the territories that Hungary got back because of Hitler,” the man explained “Hitler returned Hungary what it lost because of Trianon, in exchange for loyalty.”
With the signing of The Treaty of Trianon in 1920, which ended World War I, Hungary lost two-thirds of its territory as a punishment for being on the wrong side during the war.
That Hungarian Holocaust survivor, was visibly aged when we spoke. He passed away a long time ago, but his voice is still in my ears.
Please read the stories, which were published and broadcast on BBC on January 18 and 22, 2005. At that time I worked under the name Agnes Bos (Агнеш Бос).
The reportage is in Russian but you can translate it with Google:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/news...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/news...
January 15, 2025
Draining the Caspian Sea
DID YOU KNOW THAT: The Caspian Sea is rich in oil and gas and it has been produced here since ancient times.
Because of this, Soviet Communists planned to drain the Caspian Sea to the bottom, to get faster and easier the oil and gas. Young Soviet Russia desperately needed these natural resources in exchange for hard currency to survive:
“In 1952, Josef Stalin - the chief communist of the USSR - asked hydraulic engineer Sergei Zhuk to make a plan:
“Can you drain the Caspian Sea?” said Stalin. It was more an order than a question.
“Yes, it is possible,” replied engineer Zhuk.
In two weeks, engineer Zhuk came up with a detailed plan for how to turn away the rivers from the Caspian Sea, empty them from the water, and get to the oil.”
(Extract from the book “Russian Colonial Food”. Chapter: Azerbaijan - Oil Country)
Copyright © 2025 by Angelika Regossi (for republishing contact: angelikaregossi@yahoo.com or via LinkedIn messenger)
