Interview with Paulina Zelitsky, about her 2-volume autobiography The Sea is Only Knee Deep which tells the story of her life growing up in soviet Ukraine, her harrowing defection to Canada from Cuba in 1971, her accidental discovery of the 2nd Cuban Missile Crisis and her concerns that we may be seeing 3rd Cuban Missile crisis • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Other Items of Interest • Plenty of Great Ukrainian Music!

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Video links:


Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-American jazz artist's rendition of Miles Davis' Seven Steps to Heaven in 2016 at the Alfa Jazz Fest in Lviv


Ukrainian singer Helena Androsova's Sea Shanty Wellerman in Ukrainian



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