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Day 12, Phase 2

On Becoming Ukrainian

Apr 06, 2022
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Bombed out Borodyanka photo c/o Andriy Tsaplienko

In Ukraine your internationalism can and should be your patriotism.

We wrote abut Borodyanka on Day 9 of Russia’s further invasion. That was March 4. Ukraine’s top cop Iryna Venediktova woke up to the disaster the day before yesterday, saying mass civilian killings there make the blood bath in Bucha look like a picnic.

Let's say that more than a month after a mass murder had devastated Borodyanka, and at a moment when the miasma from the site could still be felt and smelled, a ticket-buying audience finally began paying attention.

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