Globe and Mail: November 25, 2022

This year, after having witnessed the brutality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine firsthand, it was probably natural to experience vivid flashbacks of Russian atrocities committed in Ukraine long before the current war – including how some of our closest relatives were forcibly deported to the Soviet gulag, never to be seen again. I can now comprehend the darkness in my father’s eyes, the insistence to learn the language, his tireless efforts to document Russian attempts to liquidate the Ukrainian Catholic Church. “This is history repeating itself,” I commented several times as I travelled through war-torn Ukraine.

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