Book Witold Szabłowski (set of 2 books)
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To write this book, the famous Polish reporter Witold Szabłowski had to travel to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other Soviet republics. He talked to special chefs - Viktor Belyaev, who controlled the Kremlin kitchen, those who worked during the wars unleashed by Russia, the cooks of Chernobyl, and those who survived and remembered for the rest of their lives the times of Stalin's Holodomor in Ukraine. But it is through the kitchen door that one can so well show not only the human stories, taste habits or preferences of the cooks and those they cooked for, but also the manipulative mechanisms of power - cruel and ruthless, concentrated in the hands of crazy leaders, general secretaries and other Soviet party figures.
Don't you see how food can serve as propaganda? In the countries called the Soviet Union, it was served in every fried cutlet and every Soviet canteen from Kaliningrad to the North Pole, from Moldova to Vladivostok. Unfortunately, politics was also present in what the First Secretary ate, and in what an ordinary citizen of a large totalitarian utopian state ate or did not have anything to eat.
Book 2. How to Feed a Dictator
The life story of five of the bloodiest dictators of the twentieth century - Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro and Pol Pot - in the memoirs of their chefs. The journalistic journey of the famous Polish reporter Witold Szabłowski across four continents and five countries (Uganda, Cuba, Iraq, Albania and Cambodia) opens the curtain on the lives of tyrants that were hidden from the public.
What did Pol Pot eat while several million Cambodians were dying of hunger? Is it true that Idi Amin tasted human flesh? And why was Fidel Castro obsessed with the cow Ubre Blanca, which became a symbol of the Cuban Revolution?
This is not a cookbook, although you will find some recipes here. It is a first-hand account of a life of fear, love, and hatred under tyranny.