Watching Putin's mad speech, specifically the part about Russia's "great liberation mission," all I can think about is the woman from Kherson I interviewed some weeks ago.
Russia’s security agents detained her entire family and interrogated her for several hours, with a plastic bag over her head – all the while she could hear her husband being beaten to a pulp in the next room.
“They kept asking me, ‘Are you a fascist? A banderovka? I told them that I was Ukrainian. They said: ‘There is no such people. We are one people.’ So, I asked them, 'if we are one people, why am I sitting here with a bag over my head, while you are beating my husband to death?'
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