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LEOPOLI – His grandmother wore thick glasses. “When she was still a child, the ‘holodomor’, the great famine of the 1930s caused by Stalin’s collectivization, killed millions. And starvation made my grandmother almost blind,” Yaryna says. Before Putin’s invasion, the 32-year-old taught at the Lviv Academy of Fine Arts. Relations between Ukrainians and Russians, he shakes his head, are “a curse that has lasted for three hundred years”.