Jewish Ukrainian father and son soldiers mark holy days under cloud of Russia's war

Fifty-two-year-old Asher remembers what it was like being Jewish in the Soviet Union.
"If you said you were Jewish, you'd be downgraded in school. And if you were fighting in the army, you wouldn't get a medal no matter how brave you were. You'd just be sent to the most dangerous places," he says. "I remember the anecdotes and propaganda to humiliate and intimidate us. Jews and other nationalities were considered inferior. In the Soviet Union only Russians were good enough to rule."