Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Vitaliy Katsenelson: I just spent seven days watching only Russian news and reading Pravda – here’s what I learned
A Pro-Russian militant holds a Kalachnikov asssault rifle and smokes a cigarette in front of a tank taken from Ukrainian forces during fighting in August, as he and other fire their weapons in an open field, in the eastern Ukrainian town of Ilovaisk, on Nov. 18.
I grew up hating America. I lived in the Soviet Union and was a child of the cold war. That hate went away in 1989, though, when the Berlin Wall fell and the cold war ended. By the time I left Russia in 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed, America was a country that Russians looked up to and wanted to emulate.