How a Spy Became a Candied Fruit Expert
SECOND STORY
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Lilia Sova had a successful business but she lost it in the war. Likewise, she lost her house and everything she had been creating for years. After the bitter experience at the frontline, the decision to start all over again was a very difficult one. This is a story of how the coaching program under the All4One Project helped her.
With the war, Lilia Sova became a spy behind enemy lines
“I was happy before the war. And at that time I already knew it for sure – it wasn’t something I realized only when I lost everything. I remember going out on the terrace of my house in Donetsk and thinking, ‘Oh Lord, what a happy person I am! I got everything I wanted in life,’ Lilia Sova recalls. She had an impeccable reputation, a successful property valuation business, and a wide range of acquaintances. In her life there was everything that she needed – her family, her own house, a work that she loved, and wealth. But the war changed everything. Lilia did not leave Donetsk immediately. Many people whom she knew personally became the military leadership of the self-proclaimed republic. And instead of appraising property, Lilia took up a different line of work: she became a spy behind enemy lines. “They couldn’t determine for a long time who was informing on them. I recall how once, at the table, their head told me: ‘A certain Lily Sova has been around here; when I find her, I’ll cut her into stripes with my knife!’ And he was talking about me! I was sitting there by his side,” Lilia tells her story. The tension was growing because the spy could be exposed any moment. She says she became terribly paranoid then, for she could expect danger from anywhere.
