You are born in a city that has been walled off from the rest of the world, and you've been told your entire life that the outside is dangerous, do you think you would ever visit the outside world?

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You are born in a city that has been walled off from the rest of the world, and you've been told your entire life that the outside is dangerous, do you think you would ever visit the outside world?

sifr@retrolemmy.com · 3 hours ago

Absolutely. I was teaching English with Mormons in Kiev, UA in 2014 (as a volunteer, I am not Mormon). The nonprofit we were with stressed to us that we should absolutely, under no circumstance, go to Maidan (city center). This was when the revolution was just starting. Of course I went anyway.

At least when I was in Ukraine at that time, all the discord was contained within Maidan and the eastern regions. Life elsewhere went on as usual. I’m not sure if it is the same now. But it felt like going between two worlds.