Lena Bloch
1 min readFeb 18, 2022

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Even better, so you know more, why don’t you tell us, what is it? What makes Russia not just an empire, but an evil one? And what exactly did Putin do, and what did he turn Russia to? I am not sarcastic or ironic, I am serious. It must be something really, really bad, worse than Hitler or ISIS, not speaking of the ancient Rome, the Crusades or Cenghiz Khan. What is it that all history pales in comparison? ----- I'll tell you something: my mother was born in Ukraine, she is Ukrainian Jewish and my father was born in Moscow. My grandfather is one of the first WWII historians in Russian language. I of course was born and raised in the Soviet Union. My language is of course Russian, but also Ukrainian as my mom's family was speaking it. Somehow my reality is the opposite of yours, and why is that? You basically consider your mother-language-country EVIL? Where is your Rodina, that is your motherland then? How come you are telling me to learn my own history which is obviously very different from yours?

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Lena Bloch
Lena Bloch

Written by Lena Bloch

Background in psychology of learning, literature, philosophy, math.

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