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Angelika Regossi

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Angelika Regossi is an author, journalist, and East European specialist who writes historical fiction about love, power, and intimacy shaped by political regimes.

Before turning fully to fiction, she worked as a correspondent for the BBC Russian Service and for Radio France Internationale, reporting during the fall of the Iron Curtain and the transformation of Eastern Europe. Writing under the names Agnes R. Bos and Агнеш Бос, she covered the collapse of communism, the wars of Yugoslav independence, and the political reshaping of the region.

On 29 January 2003, she reported from Budapest on the exhibition “Sex and Communism” at the Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA). The broadcast examined how socialist ideology attempted to regulate private ...more

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	Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire (Cooking and Politics Book 1) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In English as in Russian: 1000 words with explanations - ПО-АНГЛИЙСКИ КАК ПО-РУССКИ: 1000 слов с пояснениями it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magyarul mint Oroszul: 1000 szó magyarázattal - ПО–ВЕНГЕРСКИ КАК ПО–РУССКИ: 1000 с л о в с пояснениями it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In het Nederlands als in het Russisch: 1000 woorden met uitleg - ПО-ГОЛЛАНДСКИ КАК ПО-РУССКИ 1000 слов с пояснениями 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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✨ Love in Communism — Quote Series (Part 9)

“When power runs out of arguments, it finishes justice quietly, from behind.”
— Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman’s Adult Story

In dictatorships, “justice” rarely shouts. It sneaks. It closes doors, erases choices, and traps people in lives they never wanted. It doesn’t always mean violence — sometimes it’s the slow, unbearable suffocation of dreams, love, and freedom.

Love in Communism A Young Woman's Adult Story (Stories from Communist Europe) by Angelika Regossi

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Published on March 16, 2026 12:40 • Tags: coming-of-age, communism, dictatorship, eastern-europe-history, emotional-fiction, forbidden-love, historical-fiction, human-rights, life-under-communism, literary-fiction, love-and-sacrifice, political-drama, political-oppression, social-history, stories-about-freedom, survival-and-resilience, totalitarian-regimes, tragic-love-story, twentieth-century-history, women-s-stories

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“Marriage was explained to me as a bargain—be good, be quiet, be grateful. Then I saw what it would cost my face.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

tags: coming-of-age, cultural-expectations, female-identity, hidden-violence, literary-fiction, loss-of-autonomy, marriage-and-control, patriarchy, social-injustice, women-s-experience

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“Some people are like weeds — you must pull them out of the garden of your life to let yourself grow.”
― Angelika Regossi

tags: boundaries, inner-peace, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life-lessons, motivation, personal-development, self-growth, self-respect, toxic-people

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“Language remembers where we come from, even when we try to forget.”
― Angelika Regossi, Magyarul mint Oroszul: 1000 szó magyarázattal - ПО–ВЕНГЕРСКИ КАК ПО–РУССКИ: 1000 с л о в с пояснениями

tags: belonging, culture, history, identity, language, linguistics, memory, roots, self, words

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― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
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