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The Babushka's, as PO'ed as they rightfully are, need not sacrifice themselves unnecessarily.
Depending on the age of the babushka (“babushka” is a Russian term. Does she live in one of the Russian areas in eastern Finland? Her words suggest so, and shows the support of many Russian speakers who live there- whom Russia would claim that they are invading to protect-the same threadbare excuse they used in Ukraine)….
Anyway, depending on her age, she may well remember, or her parents hammered into her the story of the “Winter War”, Stalin’s 1939 invasion of Finland. It was an all hands on deck affair, in which babushkas undoubtedly played a role back then as well.
As Hank Williams Jr. sang- it was a “family tradition
