Reservations decreased by 60%, increasing phone calls and emails with hated images. Classic restaurant “Russian Samovar” in Manhattan wages 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 end the war; photos of children in Ukraine, unique messages; we are called Nazis Nazis.” The owner Vlad Fon Schatz who is the Russian of the Ukrainian grandparents reports about it AFP and is married to the Ukrainian Jew from Odessa.
When I started raising my head after two years of suffering by the Covid-19 pandemic, the owner of one of the oldest Russian restaurants in Manhattan, located in the heart of the theater zone next to Broadway, despite live music, has a deadly atmosphere “I feel they are trying us remove, 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 angrily says AFP.
“I don't even want the right to change the name because I didn't call the restaurant, and my stepfather and mother gave it to them (36 years ago),” thank you.
Like you, other Russian restaurants in New York mocked and boycotted critics about the war in Ukraine, and the waiting line grew superficially as a sign of support in Ukrainian restaurants.
From the first day of invasion of Russia into Ukraine, on February 24, the family of Ponshats put the Ukrainian flag on a door and put a mark “We against war”.
“How do you explain to your son that he is 31 years old 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 this is one of Frank Sinatra's favorite places in Manhattan before it belonged to 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,” he repeats with the mantra before saying that “we are angry” with “Russians living in the US, Ukrainian Jews” because “we take away our legacy and freedoms.”
Before he mentioned the past as “a safe place for artists who fled the Soviet Union,” he said, “We have nothing to do with it.”
“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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