Holodomor and hospitality
In recent weeks, TV and the Internet have been flooded with footage of columns of refugees, only this time they were not representatives of the war-ravaged countries of Africa and the Middle East, rushing to fertile Europe. The refugees from the mobilization are purely ours, domestic, and the footage of the new “exodus” was distributed from the border crossings of Kazakhstan and Georgia.
The first two days after the announcement of mobilization, the flow of cars to enter Kazakhstan did not particularly exceed the average. From the night of September 23, it became already noticeable, columns lined up during the day, and later a traffic jam formed. The transition to Troitsk-Uralsk was especially unlucky, however, there were columns in the Samara, Astrakhan and Omsk regions. A day later, it became clear that the entrants were being held back on both sides of the border. In the places of congestion of those fleeing the mobilization, whom the locals already call “nomads” and simply deserters, small businesses flourished. But these are all, in general, probably the little things of life, and serious problems begin right now, after a few weeks of adaptation, when these people began to steadily fill the local landscape…
