The
Eternal Love monument in
Mariinsky Park in Kyiv commemorates an Italian POW and Ukrainian forced laborer who fell in love amid World War II, and then were separated by the Iron Curtain for 60 years.
The Guardian and
DW have more. I took this photo on a grand walkabout during my first visit to Kyiv in 2013.
(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.)I've been away from blog duty for some weeks because of a busy
presentation agenda this month. But I have a list of items pending, and
I look forward to returning to writing and sharing what I've learned. Meanwhile, I am distraught by events in Ukraine. I have family from Kamianets-Podilskyi.
