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History Unplugged Podcast

Everyday Life In a War Zone: How To Live For Years With Air Raid Sirens and Tanks in the Street

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? When living in a warzone, such questions become part of the daily calculus of life. This is an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased themselves, smuggling insulin, and cutting ties to former friends.

Today’s guest is Greta Uehling, author of “Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine.” She explored these questions by researching Donbas, Ukraine, where an armed conflict over the region began in 2014 and continues to today. Uehling engaged with the lives of ordinary people living in and around Donbas and showed how conventional understandings of war are incomplete. She found that rather than nonstop air raid sirens, humans are able to forge a sense of normalcy in the most abnormal conditions.

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0:00.0

Scott here with another episode of the History Unplug Podcast.

0:07.0

What happens if you live in a war zone, but you can't or won't fight, and it's impossible for you to flee.

0:13.3

Provided your home isn't destroyed, what happens when you're there days, weeks,

0:17.1

months, and even years after the fighting begins and doesn't stop?

0:20.5

This question is in speculation, but the reality for millions who've had to ride for their families, feed their children, and continue working when guns are blazing around them.

0:29.0

What goes through the mind of a mother who has to send her child a school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors.

0:34.8

This is the calculus of everyday life in a war zone that includes provisioning fighters with military

0:39.1

equipment that you might have to purchase for yourself or smuggling insulin or if you have different

0:43.9

political views in a lifelong best friend cutting ties to him completely. Today's

0:47.9

guest is Greta Ullin, author of Everyday War, the conflict over Donbus, Ukraine.

0:53.1

She explored these questions by researching Donbus, where an armed conflict over the region began

0:57.8

in 2014 and continues to today.

1:00.4

She talked with ordinary people living in and around the region and found that rather than non-stop air raid sirens, humans are able to forge a sense of normalcy in the most abnormal conditions.

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