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Mossfern

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3. This reminds me of my grandmother's description

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 12:57 PM

Jun 2025

of the Cossacks' behavior during the pogroms in Ukraine* at the turn of the century.
"They came on horses with their sticks and hit us on the head." Her exact words.

*Ekaterinoslav- now Dnipro)

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