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Paulette MacQuarrie

@pawlina.bsky.social

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Producer/host, Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio (est 1990) in Vancouver & Nanaimo, BC. Publisher of Ukrainian Food Flair cookbook. Married 40+yrs & living happily ever after on Vancouver Island. No DMs pls unless I know you or ask. #IStandWithUkraine

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Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · Mar 24

Recently on Nash Holos I interviewed two authors of young adult novels set in war-torn Ukraine: 2022 Mariupol and 2014 Crimea. Both great reads but also gut-punching, even for adults. Definitely must-reads & must-shares.
#Books #UkrainianView #Writers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hEv...

Kidnapped From Ukraine and Swimming With Spies - A chat with the authors of two new novels

YouTube video by Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio

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Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 17h

Show Archives and Podcast Feed changes

Update: October 8, 2025 Late last year, I was hit with a takedown notice by my podcast hosting platform where I had been archiving the shows for many years. Fortunately, I appealed and was given a …

www.nashholos.com

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 18h

This is so incredibly sloppy as propaganda goes. Obviously putler is scraping the bottom of the barrel for American puppets.

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 18h

Brave people.

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 19h

But the world wasn't interested and just scoffed at the Ukrainian diaspora.

Ukrainian History @uahistory.bsky.social · 20h

"Look closely, America...!"
A leaflet from the 1950s distributed by the Ukrainian diaspora in the U.S.
Ukrainians were warning the world about Moscow’s imperialism 70 years ago.

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 19h

Bingo.

Ukraine Matters (Georgijs) @ukrainematters.bsky.social · 19h

Russian doctrine does not distinguish "Hybrid warfare" all of it is categorized as warfare.
Hybrid tag has been invented by our western politicians to make sure they can have an excuse to do nothing.

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 23h

🇪🇺👀 Violation of EU airspace is a hybrid war by the Russian Federation, it's time to call a spade a spade, — Ursula von der Leyen

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 19h

🎯

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 19h

🎯To be fair, the price is too high to repay. But acknowledging it would be fair. And noble. And the least they can do.

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 19h

This could almost make a person support the return of capital punishment.

Ground News @groundnews.bsky.social · 20h

Federal prosecutors have charged a 29-year-old man with starting the wildfire that destroyed much of Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood earlier this year, killing 12 people and leveling more than 6,000 structures.
ground.news/article/flor...

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 19h

Make them do more.

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 20h

What a joyful looking bunch. 🤣

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 20h

Didn't TACO call on his buddy to refrain from doing exactly this? He must be SO disappointed. /s

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 20h

A principled man. Unlike those scumbags who have tried to manipulate him. Those scumbags being western oligarchs working at the behest of criminal kremlin oligarchs. No need to mention names...

The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 20h

🇺🇦 Zaluzhnyi: I do not recognize any ideas of holding elections during the war. Anyone who receives an offer from someone with my name to join any organization must report it to law enforcement agencies.

I do not create any headquarters or parties and have no ties to any political force.

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Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 20h

Two brilliant authors writing stories based on real life events. One of them just released a second book of a trilogy set in 2022 at the start of the full scale invasion. This one set in Azovstal plant. The other wrote about the sad fate of the famous Crimean dolphins in 2014. Riveting stories.

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · Mar 24

Kidnapped From Ukraine and Swimming With Spies - A chat with the authors of two new novels

YouTube video by Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio

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Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 20h

It's their destiny as long as ruzzia is their neighbour. BTW what would an orc know about "normal people?" You just ape normal people when it's convenient, but always show your true nature of lying, thieving, and destruction while gaslighting actual normal people. Enjoy your paycheque while you can.

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 20h

The Ukrainians could vouch for that. Especially re the latter.

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 21h

Of course they would. They will perpetrate evil to the last orc's last breath.

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a review of Book 1 in the series.
www.nashholos.com/knyzhka-corn...

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 1d

Disgraceful.

Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 1d

Are they starting to crack under pressure...?

Сонечко Flea🐶 @sonechkoflea.bsky.social · 1d

1/ russian ideologist and propagandist Dugin: russia needs to become an empire and only "a power vertical like that of Julius Caesar" can save russia from collapse.

"The biggest problem is the Republic. It is a completely flawed political concept. It is closed in on itself.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 1d

OK, I want all you folks out there who are still pushing the "it's the West's fault," "it's ru's fear of NATO expansion," and "not one inch" tropes to please, *please,* for the love of intellectual honesty, stop embarrassing yourselves. Just stop it.

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Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent news!

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Mark Feldman 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @markfeldmanusa.bsky.social · 1d

Good work by Ukraine to expose and burn the paper tiger Muscovy. Soon it will be just a swamp with nukes.

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Eugénia 🇵🇹🇲🇫🇺🇦🇬🇪🇪🇺🇮🇱 @tugatripeira.bsky.social · 1d

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT #GEÓRGIA 🇬🇪🇪🇺

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT #GEÓRGIA 🇬🇪🇪🇺

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT #GEÓRGIA 🇬🇪🇪🇺

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🇱🇹 4fouls @4fouls.bsky.social · 1d

Russia has been trying to destroy Ukraine for centuries.

On this day, October 7, 1921, Lenin signed a decree to export 57 million poods of grain from Soviet Ukraine.

During the famine of 1921–1923, about 1.5 million Ukrainians died of hunger.

💔 Never forget. Never forgive.

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Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 1d

Then they will find an excuse to blame Ukraine for their animal cruelty.