she was telling me she's drawing a direct parallel with her sign here between adolf hitler's annexation in 1938 and what looks like the imminent russian annexation of crimea this year. people fought and died here to defend their vision of the future of ukraine. but now russian troops are massing along ukraine's eastern border. "we need to defend our country. we don't want to fight but we can't just give up our land." some men here say they're volunteering to defend ukraine. >> i just went to military checkpoint and left my phone just in case of any emergency state. i'm ready to go. but either one, but i'm ready to go.