After a mass exodus of anti-war citizens in Russia, some exiles who struggled to make a life for themselves abroad are risking it all to return home.
, including journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens who made the split-second decision to leave after realizing their country has entered a dark new era.
“It was a choice between publishing and feeling free and remaining muted,” Danilova told The Daily Beast. “We were convinced it was the beginning of a new 1937. My mother washed us in tears when we were leaving Russia, we did not know if we would ever come back.” Tired of the uncertainties and failures, the family returned to Moscow earlier this month. Referring to their lives back in Russia, Danilova said that “although we don’t see any signs of war in Moscow, and on the surface life seems exactly the same, we cannot breathe. There is no freedom,” She added that “the worst is that the catastrophe, the massacre, is committed in Ukraine from your name, from the name of Russians. We cannot trust our country any longer.
Russian national Olga, who did not want her last name published, worked at a foreign-funded NGO before the war and escaped from Moscow to Georgia on March 2. Recently, she says that she’s come to the realization that she has no choice but to head back to Russia later this month, due to both financial and personal family reasons. “I will go back home in two weeks—my husband tells me that we will only stay together if I return,” she told The Daily Beast.
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