Because of Putin’s attack on their homeland, many Ukrainians living in the district are breaking with popular customs from the Soviet era at the turn of the year this year. It starts with the fact that there will be no Russian potato salad this New Year’s Eve.
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Jacqueline Lang, Dachau
When midnight strikes on New Year’s Eve, Natalya Bach, sparkler in hand, like so many other Ukrainians this year, will wish for only one thing: that peace will soon reign in her home country. Like many of her compatriots, Bach believes that the wishes you manifest in those magical ten seconds before the start of the new year will actually come true. And this year the hope that that’s true should be particularly high.