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A great pity UCU couldn’t hear from Olha, elected village leader. But the Ruschists murdered her, her husband, and her son because she was an elected leader: “The Russians looked for the strongest people. Olha was a locomotive who pulled everyone else behind her. If there is no locomotive, they think we will be slaves like in Russia,” Ms Senenova said. “But we will never be slaves.” I met dozens of elected female leaders across Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhzhia who sound just like Olha. 50% of elected Hromada/village leaders in Dnipropetrovsk are women.
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Olha was murdered precisely because she was strong. The Ruschists “looked for the strongest people” — and half of those strongest people, across Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhzhia, are women. The statistic is as powerful as the testimony: 50% of elected village leaders are women. Olha was not an exception but a norm that authoritarianism cannot tolerate.
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