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@amirm @AdamG247 @BDWoody This is in full violation of the rules here. My apologies in advance. ASR is about as close as I get to social media and I'd like to share a few thoughts.
I'm a long time immigrant from Russia, but I have family in both Ukraine and Russia, including some that are at this moment living on the frontlines. They are proud—not even the risk of death compels them to leave.
I'm ashamed of my homeland. I'm also acutely aware of the historical facts and circumstances that have brought us here. Despite that, and despite having every conceivable distance from the decisions made by the current Russian government, I feel responsible for their effort to disrupt Ukrainian political and economic life, to incite and embrace belligerent nationalism, strangle the moral sense of our population and proceed with the invasion. My people, after all. Blood of my blood. A body whose actions I can't control.
These past few days have marked a turning point in my life whose direction I am only barely beginning to glimpse. I feel permanently altered.
Слава Україні.
I'm a long time immigrant from Russia, but I have family in both Ukraine and Russia, including some that are at this moment living on the frontlines. They are proud—not even the risk of death compels them to leave.
I'm ashamed of my homeland. I'm also acutely aware of the historical facts and circumstances that have brought us here. Despite that, and despite having every conceivable distance from the decisions made by the current Russian government, I feel responsible for their effort to disrupt Ukrainian political and economic life, to incite and embrace belligerent nationalism, strangle the moral sense of our population and proceed with the invasion. My people, after all. Blood of my blood. A body whose actions I can't control.
These past few days have marked a turning point in my life whose direction I am only barely beginning to glimpse. I feel permanently altered.
Слава Україні.