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Understanding Orwell on the Lesser Evil
At Home in the War
“At the end of the summer, I got a bit too close to a Russian artillery round, a mistake that earned me a week in Kharkiv Regional Hospital. When the doctors cleared me, I walked home.”
The Origins of a Partisan
“Citizens wore red and white, the colors of the Pahonia, the traditional flag of Belarus, a symbol made illegal in 1995 shortly after President Aliaksandr Lukashenka came to power.”
Portrait of a Stubborn Ukrainian
“He was flanked by fields of dead sunflowers that could not be harvested because of the renewed Russian offensive.”