Viewing the Ukraine Crisis from Central Europe
War and one’s place in the world
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5 min readFeb 17, 2022
I grew up in the United States late in the Cold War. I was one of the Americans continually told to beware of the Soviet evil empire, and a threat of nuclear war always simmered in the background. But it was all rather a distant notion — a hypothetical that few thought would ever come to pass.