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"Through towering pine forests and untouched meadows, the road to Lake Baikal
in southern Siberia winds past cemeteries where bright plastic flowers mark the
graves of Russians killed in Ukraine. Far from the Potemkin paradise of Moscow,
the war is ever visible.
On the eastern shore of the lake, where white-winged gulls plunge into the
steel-blue water, Yulia Rolikova, 35, runs an inn that doubles as a children’s
summer camp. She is some 3,500 miles from the front, yet the war reverberates
in her family and in her head.
“My ex-husband wanted to go fight — he claimed it was his duty,” she said. “I
said, ‘No, you have an 8-year-old daughter, and it’s a much more important duty
to be a father to her.’”
“People are dying there in Ukraine for nothing,” she said."
Via Joerg Fliege and Diane A.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
