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The New Anti-Soviet Resistance

Ukraine and even Belarus are not going back.
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Russia is fighting a war to turn back history, but Ukrainians—and even the oppressed people of Belarus—refuse to go back under Moscow’s fist. Their resistance should inspire Americans to renew our democracy.

But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.


Why They Fight

The powerful of the October issue of features stories on Ukraine and Belarus. Reading them, I felt something like vertigo, a strange sense of living in the wrong timeline. This is an edition of the magazine that, in an earlier life, I would have regarded as an exercise in speculative and : —30? And soon to be 32?!—

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