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The book contains monologues and essays by participants of the online marathon held by the Dukh i Litera Publishing House, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, and Ukrlife.TV channel to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe in May 2020. These texts represent modern approaches to the history of that war and Ukraine's place in it. They offer a multidimensional perspective on the presence of the Second World War in our present, explaining how the global system of values has changed since 1945; how the losses are still felt and the wounds inflicted on the multi-ethnic palette of Central and Eastern Europe are not healed; how cultures of war memory are formed; and why the unconvicted crimes of the past create the basis for new bloody conflicts. Unique family stories of the marathon participants emphasise the depth of human tragedies of distant years that determined the fates of several generations.