Zhanna experienced political outrage—political passion even. She had never felt it before, not even when her father was arrested on New Year’s Eve 2009, certainly not when she was running for office. All these years, her support for her father’s causes had been intellectual: she had agreed that he was right on the merits of his arguments, and even that was not true all the time. But now she felt like she was staring into an abyss. How could people—intelligent people like her grandmother or the people she worked with—not understand that war would bring disaster? How could people whose opinions
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