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Some sang at the barricades in Kyiv's Maidan square, while others stayed silent. 

"We are the fascists you have been warned about," says Sophie Villy, an up-and-coming Ukrainiain singer-songwriter, fresh from appearing at SXSW in Texas and now sitting in the Paravoz bar in Kyiv. 

"We are at war," says Oleh Skrypka, one of Ukraine's biggest rock and folk stars. 

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