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Pete Peterson remembers his ethnic heritage

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked reaction across the world.

In this special commentary, Pete Peterson provides us a history lesson on the eastern European immigrant enclaves he grew up around in the Pittsburgh area at the onset of World War II and how a Ukrainian Catholic Church still raises money for a special orphanage in western Ukraine.

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