A new documentary looks at Russia’s brutal invasion from the eyes of the children living through itBy Elena ClavarinoBefore war broke out between Russia and Ukraine in 2022, Earle Mack, the former U.S. ambassador to Finland, uncovered a haunting chapter of his family’s history. His great-grandfather was killed in a pogrom in western Ukraine in 1893, and when the murderer was caught, it fell to Mack’s great-grandmother to decide his fate.“If they caught the assassin, they would bring him to the closest relative,” Mack says. “And the closest relative, my great-grandmother, was the only one who could spare his life. She decided to let him live.”Her courage inspired him, and since Putin’s invasion, Mack hasREAD ON
