Opinion by By Leon Aron: See occupied Mariupol, where dread and suspicion reign
that anyone refusing to get a Russian passport would be deported a year from now.
The model for Mariupol is Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, which also was reduced to rubble through two wars prosecuted by Russia in the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. Ramzan Kadyrov, Putin’s proxy strongman in Chechnya who has become fabulously wealthy and powerful as a result of Russian efforts to reestablish control there, hasA local imam said Kadyrov’s people had reached out to them directly, offering seemingly unlimited assistance.
Lena wrote a poem that she showed to the photojournalist. “The walls of the basement shake from explosions. The candles flickered out. Darkness. Silence. I thought we died. … O not to go mad from pain and fear! I am crying out a prayer. I pray to survive in this hell.” Vladimir, 52, a construction worker, was particularly bitter. “Where the fascists live, in Lviv [in Western Ukraine], people sit in restaurants and coffee shops,” he said, using a variation of Putin’s label for pro-independence Ukrainians — “Nazis.”
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