Tag: mary
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Sometimes the Russians just disappear
Mary: <start cut off> just, disappeared overnight. I remember my- Vic: So they occupied it [Sievierodonetsk] in 2014, 15? Mary: Yes, it was occupied. Basically, um, yeah! It just happened overnight. People woke up in the morning and the Russians were gone. So, that’s a great legend: you can wake up in the morning and…
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Mary on folk heroes
Vic: So can you tell me about Pes Patron? Mary: I’ve always loved Pes Patron. When I first came to Lviv in December of 22, there were Pes Patron posters everywhere, and I just thought it was amazing. I have young refugee friends in Berlin. I purchase Pest Patron books for them. I purchased Pes…
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Mary on Five Huts
Mary: It was really funny today to see a bus coming from the north, coming down the main street of Sumska [in Kharkiv], and the destination on the bus was Pyatykhatska, which means “five huts”. And that’s a name of a town which obviously started off with just five huts. But it’s a thing with…
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Brian from New Hampshire
Brian: When I moved to Kharkiv full time, April 2024, I had brought my Springer Spaniel Annie, with me. We nicknamed her Humanitariannie, and they used to have these little billboards by the sidewalk with Patron photos warning kids about unexploded ordnance and that type of thing. So I got some great photos of my…