Ukrainian by Anastasia Ilnitskaya5/22/2023 ![]() So, each side attempts to take advantage of the other and more often than not fails at it but then returns the next evening for more of the same. The women in turn, make promises of their own. The men, hoping to take advantage of the women's despair and desire to move abroad, try to seduce them with promises of a possible relationship. The men ogle women as if they were the pieces of meat hanging in Anna's workplace. These clubs are notorious for being hot spots for the type of men and women who seek others while harboring secret agendas. In the nightclubs of Odessa, on a hot summer evening, I witnessed events similar to the ones depicted in Anna. When I went, I was fascinated by the mixture of Eastern and Western traditions, by the people, and was heartbroken by Ukraine's poverty and the rampant corruption that plagues its institutions. ![]() She witnessed how Ukraine, like the rest of Eastern Europe became a part of the USSR, and then later gained its independence, which is now once again threatened. It was an important step for me personally as my grandmother was born in Khust, a small Ukrainian border town. ![]() I first visited Ukraine in 2012, while traveling across Europe in a van. ![]()
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