Perspective: Now we get to see why our parents fled from the Russians — in real time
“I feel this profoundly,” said the friend, a 50-year-old lawyer and vegetarian leftie who told me she imagined herself grabbing a gun and joining the Ukrainians. “It is in our roots.”
“I was running for my life,” said tennis legend and political dissident Martina Navratilova. “My emotional life, my spiritual life. It’s just so sad to see this again.”Navratilova posted a tweet showing the masses of Czechs demonstrating in support of Ukrainians on Vaclavske Namesti — the place where dissident Czechs protested Soviet aggression in 1968 and Russian troops rolled in, shooting dozens of citizens.
I imagined I’d use it in my career. And reading Cyrillic did help when I had the chance to cover some of the war in the Balkans. But in my trips to Russia and the ironic gifts of Russian nesting dolls and military hats that I brought back to my parents, I wasn’t grasping how chilling these totems were.
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