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 Yulia Marushevska felt strongly about the violent protests in her home country of Ukraine, so she did what so many young people do: she took to the social media. Marushevska’s two-minute YouTube video I am a Ukrainian, explaining how her people “want to be free of a dictatorship” has since gone viral, garnering nearly 8 million views.

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