Reservations have decreased by 60%, telephone calls and emails with hateful insults are increasing. The classic restaurant “Russian Samovar” in Manhattan is waging its own war, breaking away from the conflict caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“From the first days of the war, we began to receive hate messages, a rating of 1 star from Google with photos, requests to stop the war; photos of children in Ukraine, unrepeatable messages; they call us fascist Nazis.” The owner Vlada Von Shats, who is a Russian woman of Ukrainian grandparents and married to a Ukrainian Jew from Odessa, tells AFP.
When I started to raise my head after two years of suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic, the owner of one of the oldest Russian restaurants in Manhattan, located in the heart of the theater area next to Broadway, despite live music, has a deadly atmosphere “I feel that they are trying to delete us, because the restaurant has the word 'Russian'.
“Before the Russian Federation, changing the name is not an option, because we are a Russian samovar (Russian samovar).” He says angrily to AFP.
“I don't even want the right to change the name because I didn't name the restaurant and my stepfather and mother gave it to them (36 years ago)”, danja.
Like you, other Russian restaurants in New York have been bullied and boycotted by critics about the war in Ukraine, and the waiting line has grown superficially as a sign of support in Ukrainian restaurants.
From the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, on February 24, the Ponshatz family put the Ukrainian flag on the door and put the mark “We are against the war.”
“How do you explain to your son that he is 31 when he receives a phone call and calls him a Nazi? He is a Jew! As a mother, I don't know what I can do to express my anger.” She added that it was one of Frank Sinatra's favorite places in Manhattan before it was owned by the family.
People “do not understand the difference between Russia and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. This is Putin's war, not our war.” “We did not believe it”, he repeats with a mantra before stating that “we are angry” with “Russians living in the United States, Ukrainian Jews,” because “we are taking away our inheritance and freedoms.”
Before he recalled the past as “a safe place for artists escaping the Soviet Union,” he said, “We have nothing to do with him.”
“I want people to understand that anger was misdirected. We didn't start this war. We can't tell Putin to stop it.” He concluded.
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