‘No One Will Bring My Husband Back’: Russian Military Widows Process Their Loss Through Social Media

Russian military widows are sharing videos of their grief on Instagram. The videos are often accompanied by footage of their dead husbands and a track by the singer Machete. Psychologist Galina Petrakova: Social media offers the psyche an additional way to reflect and cope with loss. “Posting offers widows a way to express their pain and to feel that both they and their loss are being witnessed,” she said. The psychological impact of social media on grief remains complex and difficult to measure, she said, but it is becoming a part of the mourning process for many people in the U.S. and other countries in the world. The death of a Russian soldier in combat has been reported in several countries.

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