{"id":6214,"date":"2010-11-17T21:42:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomtravel.se\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2025-11-30T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:14:13","slug":"boktips-angeln-i-groznyj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravel.se\/en\/2010\/11\/boktips-angeln-i-groznyj\/","title":{"rendered":"Book tip: The Angel in Grozny by \u00c5sne Seierstad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-skribent-helena-bergstrom\">Writer: Helena Bergstr\u00f6m<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With books you can travel to places you would otherwise never go. This time: Chechnya. What drives \u00c5sne Seierstad, a 24-year-old newly graduated journalist, to hitchhike on a military plane from Moscow to the war in Chechnya? Perhaps more foolhardy than brave, but it is fascinating!<\/p><div class=\"sharethis-buttons\"><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/twitter.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Tweet<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/facebook.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"linkedin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/linkedin.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"pinterest\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/pinterest.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Pin<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"reddit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/reddit.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"digg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/digg.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-krigets-tjetjenien\">Chechnya at war<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the story of the journey to wartime Chechnya, and the return visit 10 years later. A story of a people who have been deported, vilified and repeatedly stripped of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book introduces us to Chechen families whose husbands have been abducted, the parents of young Chechen terrorists (in the Russian theatre), the parents of young Russian racists who hate Chechens, the Chechen president who organises ice-cream events in his own honour, and the angel of Grozny - the woman who takes care of Chechnya's orphans without asking for anything in return. 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