Smiles, Smiles, SMILES!

Before this month, the ordinary public behavior of the average Ukrainian in public was:

Eyes slightly down and straight ahead.
Not much conversation in public, like on the Metro.
Very few smiles.
(Don’t get this wrong. In private, among family and friends, the Ukrainians are as warm and hospitable as you could hope to find.)

Now?
Kiev has undergone an incredible transformation. People will look you in the eye. And they smile. They smile like each of them has there own private sun shining down on them.
They smile, they smile, and they smile!

A few friends have commented on this phenomenon saying
“Things will never be the same.”