
How Strange It Feels to Watch Your Country Die
I woke up one morning to find my parents whispering and nothing on TV but Swan Lake. Then I heard someone say the words “the Soviet Union fell apart,” and suddenly my whole world changed.
Alina Yakubova was born in Kyrgyzstan when it was still a republic of the USSR. She now lives in Philadelphia.
I woke up one morning to find my parents whispering and nothing on TV but Swan Lake. Then I heard someone say the words “the Soviet Union fell apart,” and suddenly my whole world changed.