People. Warm stories from the Maidan

This book is a blog diary from the Internet, which the author started during the Euromaidan. Journalist Kristina Berdynsky, talking to two medical volunteers on Bankova Street on December 1, wrote the first story about them on her private page on the social network. When Bankova ran out of gas, these guys ran to provide an ambulance.

The author met wonderful people like these doctors on the Maidan every day. Modest and at the same time stubborn and desperate, with different levels of income and education. Someone from the West of Ukraine, someone from the East. For some reason, the media paid less attention to ordinary people, and it was they who were the energy and spirit of these events. On December 20, Kristina created a Facebook page, the Maidaners, where she began posting stories about Maidan residents and their photos taken with a mobile phone camera. She talked to wealthy businessmen who supplied firewood and tires to the Maidan, to builders, students, volunteers, hotline coordinators, those who work in kitchens, live in tents, artists, musicians, and cultural figures. In January-February, hundreds of volunteers translated these stories into 17 languages. People wanted the world to know who was really standing on the Maidan. In the diary "People" there are records of death and injury, pain and sorrow, but also about mutual assistance, strength and courage, inspiration and love. I really want these stories to remain not only on the Internet, but also in the memory of readers of this book.