'Russia has never confronted its history,' writes Mark Preston, who survived the wars in Chechnya. 'With every day of Putin’s war, he is planting ever more seeds of hatred that will last for generations.'
It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in New York City, and people were outdoors walking their dogs, playing with their kids in Central Park, meeting friends for brunch. I was walking south, alone. I didn’t call anyone because I knew where most of my friends would be—protesting against’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Wandering the crowd in Times Square, I saw my friends Dasha and Sasha, whose families were still in Ukraine. We hugged. The crowd was chanting slogans while we silently cried.
Earlier that week, my friend was trying to make the hardest decision of her life and asked me for advice: Should she evacuate her mother from Kyiv to the border with Poland or leave her with relatives where her mother felt safe, hoping that the war would end quickly? I had to tell her that I spent most of my childhood in shelters hiding from bombs, in refugee camps and barracks, freezing while trying to find a safe place to stay.
For a couple of years, Chechen rebels, numbering only a few thousand people , brought the Russian army to its knees. As my grandmother used to say, “Russia can capture and destroy our cities and villages, but it will never be able to defeat us.” Putin witnessed that resistance. The first war ended in a sort of stalemate, with the signing of a peace treaty, and for a little while it seemed as though there was some sort of peace and sanity.
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