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Democracy is not a gift but a prize that has to be won over and over again, and it is worth fighting for.

— Kateryna Babkina

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I talk about the things that grandparents ran away from, the things that wouldn't have let them survive and become actual grandparents had they decided not to suffer, leave everything they loved behind—and flee.

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