“Why aren’t Russians going out to protest?” one Ukrainian friend asked me recently. “You’d have to be some kind of monster to sit and let this happen.” While the rest of the world has been shocked by the harrowing trail of razed apartment buildings and broken bodies left in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s invasion, what those back home know about the crimes being committed in their name, and what they think about them, has been a matter of intense debate.
How can Russians live with themselves?
“Why aren’t Russians going out to protest?” one Ukrainian friend asked me recently. “You’d have to be some kind of monster to sit and let this happen.” While the rest of the world has been shocked by the harrowing trail of razed apartment buildings and broken bodies left in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s invasion, what those back home know about the crimes being committed in their name, and what they think about them, has been a matter of intense debate.