Refugees Report Discrimination At Some Ukraine Border Crossings - The ReidOut - MSNBC
Discrimination at some of Ukraine's borders is being experienced by refugees who are African, Roma, and other non-Ukrainian groups. Putin is likely to exploit these reports to create anti-Ukraine sentiment and distract from his unprovoked invasion. Joy Reid and her panel discuss. Aired on 03/01/2022.
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I went to the USSR in the late '80s with my grandmother who was part of a peace group which had a "sister town" in the Caucasus Mountains and this was the first visit. But when it comes to Russia, I did become aware of some racism - there was little diversity in Russia proper, it only existed in what was then Soviet Georgia which was was more Middle Eastern in culture and they hated the Russians.
Cultural Russians were given preferential treatment, they were rewarded for having more children, for example. Like more racist pockets of this country, it became obvious to me that they worried about minorities outnumbering cultural Russians.
And I can remember seeing a black gentleman descending a staircase in one of those gigantic Peter the Great mansions, and it dawned on me at the time that he was the first and only POC I'd seen. And I was right, I saw him chatting with a member of my group and it turned out he was another American tourist.
So though it's really sad, especially in this day and age, that anyone anywhere is still regarded as an "outsider." While I have enormous compassion for Ukrainians, I'm glad that your girlfriend is no longer there, but most especially for the threat that Ukraine is currently experiencing. 
