As the young Russian flees through the mountains into neighbouring Kazakhstan, he's met with a local on horseback who gives the hungry young man a chocolate bar. "What is it?" he asks. “It's a taste of freedom,” the Kazakh replies. By some estimates, upwards of 700,000 Russians have fled the country rather than risk being forced to go fight in Ukraine. Pretty clever advert.

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