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CSUN's Daniela Gerson: Putin’s diaspora will echo 1939’s, but going in the opposite direction

My wife and I share a past that spans continents and tracks back to the Polish-Ukrainian border. Eighty-two years ago, during a frigid winter, both sets of our grandparents made the same escape from eastern Poland, ahead of the Nazis’ occupation. They crossed the River Bug, and found their way to what is today Lviv, Ukraine.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-03-06/ukraine-war-poland-lviv-refugees-jews-world-war-two

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