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BeyondGeography

(39,351 posts) Mon May 23, 2022, 09:50 AM May 2022

"Boris Bondarev is a hero."

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"Boris Bondarev is a hero." (Original Post) BeyondGeography May 2022 OP

Heroic, yes EYESORE 9001 May 2022 #1

Hero? relayerbob May 2022 #2

EYESORE 9001

(25,908 posts)

1. Heroic, yes

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Mon May 23, 2022, 10:01 AM

May 2022

I wish him well in his new quest to avoid martyrdom.

relayerbob

(6,537 posts)

2. Hero?

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Mon May 23, 2022, 12:25 PM

May 2022

The war has been raging for nearly three months. Yes, this takes a certain amount of courage, since he now may well be on Putin's hit list, but that list is huge and growing and his spies are being found and ejected all over the world. Glad he did it, but that's a little hyperbolic.

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