{"id":1376318,"date":"2026-03-31T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/they-made-us-together-how-ukraine-has-changed-in-the-seven-years-since-the-fateful-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:52:59","slug":"they-made-us-together-how-ukraine-has-changed-in-the-seven-years-since-the-fateful-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/they-made-us-together-how-ukraine-has-changed-in-the-seven-years-since-the-fateful-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey Made Us Together\u201d: How Ukraine Has Changed in the Seven Years Since the Fateful Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

Exactly 7 years ago, the first round of the presidential election took place. Back then, you could still choose your own leaders, right? Sloviansk and Kramatorsk were deep rear cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kyiv, Odessa, Kharkiv, and Lviv were not bombed, the heat was not turned off during the cold weather, and the word \u201cblackout\u201d was not even known yet.<\/p>\n

Back then, in 2019, planes were still flying, can you imagine? You could get to any country in Europe in 2-4 hours \u2013 not 24 hours.<\/p>\n

And men didn’t need the highest permission of the authorities to travel abroad. It’s hard to believe, but you could get to the warm sea at any time, and even on any day \u2013 as long as you had the money.<\/p>\n\t\t