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Let’s reserve the word crisis for Ukraine and Covid-19

06-12-2022

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Evert van Vlastuin, CNE.news

Let’s reserve the word crisis for Ukraine and Covid-19

Covid-19 was a real crisis in March 2020. Even the planes were grounded. Photo ANP, Remko de Waal

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A few weeks ago, I spoke to a young Ukrainian woman whose mother tongue is Russian. For her, that was never a problem. Despite political pressure to speak Ukrainian, she had simply continued to use Russian. She did not see that as a betrayal.

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