“We Will Destroy You from Within”

We can’t say Russia didn’t warn us

Photo by David Everett Strickler on Unsplash

I remember hearing this threat or words just as scary said by a heavy-set man in an ill-fitting suit. He was speaking in a combination of bad English and gruff, guttural Russian. I was a little girl living with my parents and my brother in a rented apartment in a small town in Virginia. Since both of my parents worked at jobs away from home…