About Love in Communism: A Young Woman’s Adult Story:
In the shadows of the Soviet Union, young Anfisa Petrova comes of age with a stark awareness of her budding femininity, but with the lingering trauma of her past. Raised in a family distance from communist ideologies, she finds solace in the love of her mother and grandfather.
However, fate thrusts her into a chilling reality at seventeen, forcing her to confront the harrowing experience of being a woman prisoner in the USSR. These trials shape her decisions in life, ultimately leading her to part ways with her first husband a cunning art thief who exploits the vulnerabilities of the waning Soviet era.
Love in Communism weaves a story of resilience, love, and the pursuit of personal liberty against a backdrop of political turmoil, repression, and suspicion.
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Author Bio:
Angelika Regossi was an East Europe news reporter for BBC radio during the unprecedented changes in the region; the fall of the “Iron Curtain”, the expansion of NATO and the European Union and the transition from communism to capitalism.
In addition to BBC, she freelanced for RFI (Radio France International) and DW radio (Deutsche Welle) and worked as a TV producer for Belgium VRT, German Spiegel, Dutch NOS, the Voice of America, and others. At that time, she was writing under the name Agnes R. Bos, or Агнеш Бос.
Regossi travelled extensively through the region, reporting about the major historical events in East Europe; including several Balkan wars of independence during the break-up of Yugoslavia (1991–2001), the overthrow of the president of Yugoslavia—Slobodan Milosevic (2000)—and his trial for the war crimes at the Tribunal in The Hague (2002).
Regossi also worked from Canada over the independence of Quebec (1995) and other parts of the world, like the war in Iraq (2003), the Karen civil war in the jungles of Burma and religious persecutions in Laos (2005), the Russian war in Georgia (2008) and other places.
Angelika Regossi was born on 21 April 1964 in Transcarpathia, the westernmost region of Ukraine. She began writing at an early age but had difficulties with communist authorities, who persecuted her grandfather in a labour camp in Siberia. With no communists in the family, Regossi had little chance to discover herself in the autocratic USSR.
Therefore, in September 1989, she moved to Hungary where communism had just collapsed. After finishing her reporter job for BBC, in 2015, Regossi moved to the Netherlands where she continued to work on different television documentaries about East Europe.
Angelika Regossi has a university degree and special training in investigative journalism. She speaks several languages: English, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak, and other Slavic languages. Her hobbies are gardening and of course, travelling.