I’m Russian — So If You Start Treating Me Worse, I’ll Understand

How the war in Ukraine is destroying the Russian legacy.

Photo by Nazary Gerashenko on Unsplash

When I was a kid, about seven or eight, we used to play “war” with other kids in our dacha (country house). We would divide into two teams — “Russians” and “Germans.” Nobody wanted to play “Germans,” of course. They were supposed to lose. We would run around…