I met Michał quite by accident, on a tram. On my tram, he left his phone. And so the search for the owner of the camera turned into another training session together ;)
- Mikołaj Chomacki
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- Mikołaj Chomacki
Des Plaines, Illinois
- Mikołaj Chomacki
Khreschatyk Street, Kiev, Ukraine.
31 December 2013.
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... Around the corner, lights pierce the fog. We are walking along Khreshchatyk Street. More and more people, the music gets louder. Suddenly we see a barricade and people warming themselves with braziers (or rather old, rusty barrels that serve this purpose).
and... I don't know what to write next. Seriously. It's hard for me to stay in the New Year's Eve festival mood of that day, knowing what happened next. 22 days later, five people died in this place, which was only the beginning of the bloodshed during Euromaidan. At the end of February, "green men" appeared and occupied administrative buildings in Simferopol, Crimea. In April, a war breaks out in Donbas, with no end in sight today.
And on December 31, 2013, while no one expects it, music plays on Independence Square, and people come from all over the country, to dance and share food. They thank us for coming from abroad and support.
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