Kotkina: Russian Dreams, Russian Nightmares

We. Are. Bombing. Ukraine. That morning I woke up and realized it was true. It was unbelievable. 

I knew the names of the places my country was bombing now from my childhood. Every Russian did. We had a war there. It was the Great Patriotic War when the Russians and the Ukrainians aside were fighting against the Nazis. The real Nazis, not the Nazis that were invented by somebody’s unhealthy mind.