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Reviewed on May 15, 2013 | Fiction
In 1930, Soviet leader Stalin's cadres crushed Ukrainian villages to collectivize their farms and exile the kulaks (well-to-do peasant farmers) to Siberia, resulting in a great famine. So far the village of Vryiv has remained hidden from the authorities. But when villager Luka, a war vet and devoted family head, encounters a dying stranger pulling a sled with the butchered corpses of two children and brings him to the village, the v...Log In or Sign Up to Read More