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Where do Ukrainians find the strength to stand?

Hope and anxiety are the two feelings that Ukrainians are experiencing the most during the current war. A recent survey shows that for 55 per cent of Ukrainians, the strongest feeling that they were experiencing at the end of 2024 was hope. Anxiety came in second with 45 per cent.

The winter of 1948. Europe is returning back to normal life after the years of the Second World War. European nations are preparing to conclude the Brussels Pact. Formally known as the Treaty of Brussels, this agreement was signed on March 17th 1948 by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In other words, these were the members of the Western Union, which operated as an expansion of the Treaty of Dunkirk.

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Graves of Ukrainian soldiers in the Alley of Glory in the Kharkiv cemetery. Photo: podyom/Shutterstock

This other treaty had been signed the previous year between the UK and France to guard against possible German or Soviet aggression after the end of the war. 

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Ukrainians are trying to make a life far away in remote and cold Siberia, where they were brought in freight cars a few months prior and placed in isolated and haunting settlements. Among them was my grandmother and her entire family. At that time Mariya, my grandmother’s name, was only 19 years old. In Yavoriv, a small town near Lviv, she had just completed a stenographer’s course and was going to “study to be a teacher”.  This career path was stopped for her in October 1947, when she was deported to Kuzbass in south-western Siberia, where she would later work in the coal mines.

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