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Olga Chaplin: The Man from Talalaivka: A Tale of Love, Life and Loss from Ukraine

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When Peter forged travel documents during Stalin’s formidable reign to see his parents in a Siberian labour camp before they perished, he knew he was facing the life-or-death challenge of his life. What followed in the years after that journey could not have been foreseen by Peter or his countrymen. In 1941, the Ukraine was invaded by Hitler’s army and remained under its control until its retreat two years later, taking Peter and his young family with them, as workers in Germany’s labour camps where he has to draw on every ounce of his being to keep his family alive. After years of hardship and suffering, a hand of hope is offered in the form of a ship that would take Peter and his family, now displaced persons, with no country they could claim as their own, as far away from Stalin’s Soviet Union as possible: to Australia, a land of opportunity and fairness before the law. Based on a true story, The Man from Talalaivka, is both a political and personal story. But above all, it is a story about survival and endurance, and love: love for one’s family, love for one’s country, love for humanity.

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Understandably, the Ukrainian farmers were unwilling to give up their land without a fight. But this is what Stalin wanted. Labelling any farmer unwilling to leave his land a ‘kulak’ (wealthy opportunist farmer under the old regime), his ruthless methods of charges, imprisonment, executions, and sentences to Siberian labour camps, at the same time starving the Ukrainian people of grain for the sowing season, had the desired effect. Over six million Ukrainians died in the period 1929 to 1933. More importantly, for Stalin, he took absolute control over the Ukrainian people who, even under Lenin’s leadership, had been respected and encouraged to increase their farm productivity, which was so vital to the welfare of all of Russia. From a society which saw the Tsar with his ‘munificent benevolence’ bumble along, yet not take away farmers’ livelihoods, Russia, by the early 1930s saw its new ‘Tsar’, Stalin, a totalitarian dictator, ruling with an iron fist, supported by his legions of soviet cadres, akin to unionists, eager to gain his support. Few of these would have realised that they, in turn, would become Stalin’s victims as the Five Year Plans faltered and as Stalin, with brazen power, took on first the soviets, then the bureaucracy, the Bolshevik Party and, ultimately, the Red Army forces, to irrevocably change the nature of Soviet society: a police state, ruled by fear.

His decimation of the armed forces, in the purges from 1934 to 1939, cost Russia and all its people dearly, as Hitler turned on his previous co-signatory of Poland’s fate, and invaded Russia in June 1941: the infamous Operation Barbarossa, in a three-pronged attack. Yet again, the Ukrainian people suffered as Hitler’s armies secured control over most of the Ukraine, its agricultural and other resources supplying his growing military empire in years to come. Hero Stalin used his genius to hide behind young untried soldiers and marshals and hastily created generals, as they fought valiant campaigns to stop Hitler’s armies within forty kilometres of Moscow. With over twenty million Russian, Ukrainian and other nationalities’ lives lost in the struggle against Hitler’s imperialism, it could be said that the Soviet Union people’s victory over Hitler was in spite of, rather than because of Stalin, whatever his image and speeches from the Kremlin portrayed at the time.

But again, all those touched by the war were affected in different ways: in the Ukraine, more so than in other regions, as German armies retreated, and took back with them over eight million labourers to Germany’s heartlands, many of them Ukrainians; most of them, never to see their homeland or loved ones again.

It is to the credit of peace-loving peoples the world over, to the attempts made by the new United Nations after 1945, and the true desire of so many western countries to uphold the ideals and laws of democracy, that we can say, with a certain tempered pride, that Europe itself has passed from its dark days of Mussolini’s, Hitler’s and Stalin’s regimes to a more honest appraisal of society under totalitarian dictatorship; though we should be ever vigilant of such a return.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My kind and generous-hearted parents shared with us, their children, and with their many friends, the stories of their life in Ukraine and the journey of their removal from their country. It is a precious inheritance for which I am immensely grateful, as it portrays the richness and depth of their culture despite the hardships endured by them and their countrymen and women during that time.

I am also grateful to the writing members of the informally-named Bay Road Writers, present and past, for their tolerance of my halting efforts and their encouragement throughout. My especial thanks go to Anne Lovell and Margaret Grace, whose talent, wisdom and forbearance know no bounds.

That I could be so fortunate as to have found such a professional publisher in Caroline Webber is yet another gift bestowed on me, in her superb mentoring, editing and publishing skills and knowledge, which have enabled me to complete this personal journey of honouring my parents and their lives, in what is for me the only meaningful way that I can.

Caroline’s suggestions, and Gloria Tsang’s sensitive interpretation of the story in the cover design of this book, are very much appreciated.

My appreciation, thanks and love go to my children Rodney and Jacqueline for all their encouragement in my writing endeavours.

My heartfelt thanks, reserved until now, go to my husband Ric, whose humour, kindness, support and love endure beyond all else.

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First published in 2017 by Green Olive Press

Green Olive Press

5 Lindsay Street

Brighton VIC 3186

www.greenolivepress.com

Copyright © Olga Chaplin 2017

Olga Chaplin asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this book.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any other information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

Creator: Chaplin, Olga, 1944- author.

Title: The man from Talalaivka: a story of love, life and loss from Ukraine / Olga Chaplin.

ISBN: 9780992486068 (paperback)

Subjects: Immigrants--Australia--Fiction. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany--Fiction. Ukraine--History--1921-1944--Fiction. Ukraine--History--Famine, 1932-1933--Fiction. Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944--Fiction.

Dewey Number: A823.4

Cover and internal design: Gloria Tsang/Green Olive Press

Printed in Australia by Griffin Press

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