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I'm trying to figure out if depression is also a learning experience. Really fine, what you wrote. It's so sad, especially because so many people have no first-hand experience of commie-truth. I simply die, when I see how many people here think pootie is completely right in his ignorance. Sometimes wonder, is it really necessary for China to invade the US for people here to finally "get it"? Thanks, Valentina.

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Feb 25, 2022Liked by Valentina Petrova

Your article provides a candid and shockingly fresh perspective, v. moderated and juried news.

I appreciate your insights as someone who has experienced the earlier atrocities first-hand. I'm from a country that fell to communism myself while I was quite young and understand the fear/uncertainty/trauma dynamic all too well. Мир, любов и състрадание

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Feb 25, 2022Liked by Valentina Petrova

With respect to the timing issue, Russia has 11 different time zones and units were deployed in local times which caused the confusion.

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This honesty is powerful. You describe so clearly what so many are feeling and it's potent because you have a closer experience to the oppressive governments and dudes ruining them. Thank you for sharing your perspective so candidly - I love your writing.

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Feb 25, 2022Liked by Valentina Petrova

It has to be horrifying to see a nation, so close physically and culturally to your native land, being gobbled up by one individual's unbridle ego. I am incensed by those Americans who bleat their support for Putin, but am gratified by those Russians who are voicing their own outrage at what their government is doing. Yes, may this madness be brought down, and soon. God knows, the healing will take decades, if not a century.

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Thanks for sharing, that was an incredible read. I feel frustrated about the weak response from Ukraine’s allies. It looks like Ukraine will fight this out alone, without support from any other country?

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