From the archive

Four years

Finding jobs. Paying for relocation. Giving up the lives they knew. Because they decided they no longer wanted to stay. And now you show up. Another wave of “I'm not political.” And locals look at all of us the same way. Who cares when you left? Who cares why? Another Russian just showed up. Thanks a fucking lot. People who left years ago now have to explain all over again that no, they didn't come here to wait out another mobilization scare.