The irony is that my mother came here from Italy as a Polish refugee in 1948 because the pre-war family home was located in a part of Poland that was annexed by the Soviet Union as part of the post WWII agreement between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchlil. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Polish territory ceded to the Russians effectively landed in Ukraine. None of this was the doing of Ukraine of course, this was the Russians, or more accurately, Stalin.
