If someone would ask me what’s this book I would tell them that this book is an awesome book that is very touching and explains everything Russian civilians citizens?or people outside russia felt about the great famine in Ukraine (Holodomor) during the year 1933.

I would also tell them that this book is a wonderful book comparing the disinformation in 1933 in Russia and covid in 2020.

The emotions I felt while reading this book where mostly sadness and hope for when the doctor at the orphanage let Mila go I had hoped she would make it t the US and sad because Nadya just died.

I also felt sad when Mila saw dead children being carried out of the orphanage.This touched me because I cannot imagine having to live there and watch while I see my friends or family dead and carried away.

And I felt hope when Mila’s piano teacher taught her that dictators are bad and that Stalin is not awesome like that she might be able to make things change for kulaks and make the USSR better.

The best part of this book according to me is when Mila pretends to be Nadya and the doctor doesn’t reveal the fact that she is Mila and not Nadya. This part was touching because it showed us that people in Russia did not just dumbly follow their dictator’s orders.

This books talks about how a dictatorship keeps power, the danger of disinformation, how brittle family ties are and how lying even for ones good is not a good idea.

I would recommend this book because first of all I really liked it and would recommend it to people who like to learn about forgotten events or things that most people do not know.I also think this book should be taught in school because it could help teach kids that disinformation is bad and to always gather information from different sources to be able to think outside the box and check sources.

My last thought about this book is that is an awesome book that can teach you many things, like how dangerous disinformation is, how people in Ukraine felt during the Holodomor, or about the dictatorship of Stalin and how people talked about him as if he was their dad, their savior.

I would rate this book with 4 stars out of 5 because it was really awesome and fun to read, it taught me many things about how people saw Ukrainians in the USSR in 1933.(PS I took a star off because it was too sad)