When a war begins, words become superfluous - actions are needed. And then it turns out that the words themselves have changed, crumbled, acquired newsenses and sound - began with fragments of stories heard and experienced, and became a way to record the experience of heavy losses and irreversibility, pain and belief in victory. Ostap Slyvinsky, carefully collecting documentary evidence, gave them a new form. Among the people whose voices the Dictionary of War" speaks are tho...