This article is published in issue 11 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 16, 2022
At the time of writing, in Ukraine bombs are falling on civilians and evacuations have been suspended, Mariupol is a trap, Kiev is under siege, meanwhile in Russia thousands of people demonstrating against the invasion have been stopped and the director of the Bolshoi Theater of Moscow, Tugan Sokhiev, resigned. What do we others do now? What can we do? Many volunteers have left to help out, others are working from here to collect money or basic necessities: warm clothes, medicines, diapers, powdered milk. I can’t think of anything other than trying to do my job as best I can.
Since the day Russia invaded Ukraine I have heard a journalist from Kiev on the radio every morning: first Valerio Nicolosi, then Cecilia Sala. The first few days Valerio was in a bunker with eight babies, the youngest was twelve days old and we could hear him crying through the telephone. Each day he passed more. Then Valerio had to leave with those families: now he is recounting the exodus, at the moment he is in Romania. Cecilia on the other hand is still in Kiev, which she calls Kyiv, with Ukrainian pronunciation, and she makes chilling stories in her podcast Stories for Chora Media.
Gino Strada (1948-2021), founder of Emergency.
His essay arrived in the bookstore posthumously One person at a time (Feltrinelli).
I follow Francesca Mannocchi who in La Stampa and La7 tells stories that break in two without ever losing a second of lucidity. In fact, she seems more desperately lucid every day. On Sunday I didn’t know what I could do and I read the posthumous book by Gino Strada just released for Feltrinelli. It is a kind of enlightening and riotous autobiography which says: «We need to heal the victims and reclaim their rights. One person at a time ». There are really disturbing passages: on the “enemy”, on civilians, on the atomic risk, on the utopia of peace.
Especially on children, the biggest and most unbearable victims of any war. I thought that this book has a title that shows a possible way for each of us: One person at a time. If we can help even one person at a time, we can do something, everyone, everyone in him. \
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