Scenes from last Sunday’s anti-war protest in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village

[strannik01]

When the Russian-Ukrainian War broke out, my mom and I knew that there are going to be rallies and protests in support of Ukraine and against the war - and we wanted to be a part of it. But my usual sources within the Russian-speaking communities, and the general activist chatter on Twitter, kept failing me. I kept finding out that event after

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Thanks for this detailed, journalistic "post". Yes, funny how we are used to "allowing" one more life to die in such battles, watching from afar. And I'm sure you felt as many Muslims did post 9/11; how Asians feel now during the pandemic; and how possibly, some Ukrainian-supporting Belarusians feel. Regarding Belarus though, this is how we must separate the government from its people. Same for the Russian people, but imagine if the military took a "traitorous" stand??? It's obvious that Putin must go ...