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Stuttgart, Germany
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)Donkees
(31,085 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)niyad
(112,434 posts)KS Toronado
(16,908 posts)But in this country most people won't even fly their flag to show support. When the war broke out, I looked
online for Ukrainian flags, been displaying a 3ft x 5ft one for 3 weeks now.
HUAJIAO
(2,362 posts)KS Toronado
(16,908 posts)Same experience, only one in town of 21,000
calimary
(80,694 posts)I love seeing these kinds of outward signs!
The world is with you, Ukraine.
AllyCat
(16,035 posts)Midwest (IL,IA, NE). Lots of businesses flying Ukrainian flag!
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,924 posts)I am sure there are quite a few Americans living in the Midwest with some Ukrainian ancestry.
DFW
(54,051 posts)I used to play in a balalaika orchestra in Philadelphia for 5 years. MANY members of Ukie descent, and we used to get our "rubazhki," or Russian shirts, made by Surma, a Ukie store up in Greenwich Village.
Here was one of our best numbers, as played by the Holland-America Line in the 1980s (original Penn Balalaika Orchestra arrangement!) : https://soundcloud.com/user-227049517/cossack-cavalry-songs
*that's me on the balalaika track!
DFW
(54,051 posts)Here in Düsseldorf, signs are all over the central train station, the Hauptbahnhof, in yellow and blue, written in Ukrainian, directing any refugee who gets off there and doesnt know where to turn. Facilities are set up to receive them and help them out with immediate needsfinding relatives, shelter, food, medical care, whatever.
In this case, most German cities have a huge head start. Every town here has resettled Poles and Russians, so the linguistic barrier wont be an issue until jobs and school places for children become an issue, not of vital importance in the first weeks. Ukrainian is linguistically closer to Polish than to Russian, but decades of Soviet domination left Russian as a nearly universal second language. Rather like Castilian and Catalan in Catalunya. After decades of Francos linguistic suppression, almost everyone in Barcelona speaks fluent Castilian (Spanish, ), even if the native Catalan is much closer to medieval southern French, or langue doc. I converse with our Ukrainian near-neighbor in Russian because my Polish is inadequate to attempt Ukrainian. As he served in the Red Army in Afghanistan, his Russian is fluent, albeit with the telltale Ukrainian gutteral Dutch-style G, as opposed to the Russian hard G, as in Gorbachëv.
msfiddlestix
(7,265 posts)thank you for sharing.
Zeitghost
(3,796 posts)That Train is running on power created by Russian natural gas...