Going to archive these days, here are my top things to take with me: huge power bank for camera and laptop, flashlights (one for the forehead and one for books), extra warm socks and heating pads, termos with tea.
❗️Ask people if working hours change and come early to work while there is daylight.

Those working in archives know that usually these places are already cold, and harsh winter and destroyed infrastrutture add up another layer!
However, preserving history and researching my country even with such difficulties give me purpose. I will keep doing regardless russian efforts to kill us.

Connecting the Holodomor and Soviet crimes to the Russian war against Ukraine, I will spend my Sunday with Local History magazine piece on Bread (2023) which I brought from war-torn Kyiv to my new home in Switzerland.

If you learned about it in school or heard a lot about it, I suggest chapter 14, The Cover-Up, which I marked on every page. It showed me the Holodomor from outside Ukraine and how it was even possible in the world. Obviously political context of the last century gave me flashbacks to today’s time.

If you know little to nothing about Holodomor, I can suggest you reading Red Femine of @anneapplebaum.bsky.social who gives amazing historical context and describes all the atrocities committed by Soviet government.

Kleine Anekdote zum Abschluss: Gestern kam ein Unbekannter bei uns im Haus vorbei und fragte in perfektem Schulukrainisch nach der nächsten Militäranlage in der Umgebung.
Russische Spione gibt es auch in den kleinsten Dörfern. Finden die irgendwas, wird das gesamte Dorf zum Ziel. #nosafezones

And of course don’t forget that #russiaisaterroriststate
Stay safe!