Ukraine one year on, with filmmaker Nadia Parfan
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The Strange Combination of Normalization and Survival
Nadia: I might never ever experience anything as abnormal as what we're living through now. This year for the new year, I decided I'm going to stay home because it's important. And this is exactly what happened. My friend arrives like shortly before 11. We open some champagne. We try to celebrate the fact that we are alive. Then, you know, this is the everyday life now in Kiev. And I can't get used to this. It breaks my heart and I suffer every time. But other people, they are just grateful that they are alive and that they have homes and they just leave it. The word normalized feels wrong here, but the war feels that you
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