Elena Lavrova’s stories about the war in Donbas tell real destinies of people who refused to live in a country where Banderite fascism took its revenge. These are ordinary Russian people who, after the collapse of the USSR, found themselves in an alien environment, sharply feeling their deep blood connection to Russia—and who took up arms in the hope of reuniting Donbas with the Motherland.
The fates of these people are dramatic, sometimes tragic. What unites them is a feeling of love for Russia, to which they want to return—sometimes even at the cost of their own lives.