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Interview
Sofi Oksanen talks about her latest book, When the Doves Disappeared, and the environment for citizens in Soviet Russia.
What led you to write When the Doves Disappeared?
Most European countries didn&#;t go through this during World War II, but the Baltic states have a history of double occupations: two Soviet occupations and one German occupation.
In my previous Estonia-related novel, Purge, I focused on the Soviet occupations. German occupation is such a big issue that I realized I would need a separate novel to cover it.
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So I started work on When the Doves Disappeared, which takes place during both the Soviet and German occupations. This was in , at a time when the old Soviet-style propaganda about the Baltic states was back in full swing in contemporary Russia, and I noticed this tended to confuse people abroad.
If we don&#;t know how Soviet propaganda was originally created and used, we can&#;t understa