This is a good point. If anybody is justified in running around with a knife, it’s a young person from a war-torn country, displaced, and exposed to the stories of the most horrific atrocities visited on her countrymen in the past three years. In all probability, Iryna’s ancestors were serfs, bought and sold, and only liberated in 1861. Since then, what have Iryna’s ancestors and she herself experienced? Ethnic cleansing, totalitarianism, Holodomor, and invasions. But instead of running around murdering people, Iryna sat there quietly with her phone, not bothering anybody.
Some historical misfortunes seem to cause no antisocial behavior while others, in spite of being much less recent, do.
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