Two refugees crossing into the same country at the same time, both about the same age, could not stand in starker contrast.
Concertina wire separating Poland and Belarus at the closed border crossing point in Kuznica, Poland, on Thursday, March 10, 2022.
From the instant they cross into Poland, Ukrainian refugees such as Maslova are treated to live piano music, bottomless bowls of borscht and, often, a warm bed. And that’s just the beginning. They can fly for free all across Europe on Hungary’s Wizz Air. In Germany, crowds line up at train stations, waving Ukrainian flags. All European Union countries now allow them to stay for up to three years.
Ukrainians are victims of a conflict on European soil that creeps closer by the day. The result is a response from Europeans that is largely loaded with compassion. That leaves refugees from more distant wars feeling the sting of inequality and, some say, racism. She had studied animation at a college in Warsaw and her roommate’s parents knew a man whose father had a spare house in the Polish countryside. If this worked out, she could go back to animation school and fulfill her dream of making children’s cartoons. She convinced her family: on to Poland.
About 130 miles away, to the south, Maslova’s convoy finally reached its destination, a farmhouse deep in the Polish countryside.“Hello, I am Janusz,” he said. At least 19 people have frozen to death in recent months trying to get into Poland after Polish border guards pushed them back into this forest, human rights groups say.“It’s the Belarusians’,” said Katarzyna Zdanowicz, a border guard spokesperson. “They direct these people.”
The soldier then marched them to the forest and said: “Go Poland. If you come back, we will kill you.”
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