"When I started my work and would speak to the police, they would say, “Oh come on, women don’t feel loved if they’re not beaten. He beats you, therefore he loves you.” It’s a Russian saying that comes from the sixteenth century".
Renate Weber (ALDE, Romania) was Marina Pisklakova Parker, from Russia, the founder of the first hotline for victims of domestic violence.
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