Kseniya Simonova's Sand Drawing 'Ukrainians Got Talent

YOUTUBE.COM ^ | 14 JANUARY 2010 | YOUTUBE.COM

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This video shows the winner of 2009s "Ukraine's Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is unusual, is mesmeric to watch. The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about $75,000.

She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is an amazing video.

[Talisker]

Yugoslavia - the Clinton Military Invasion the MSM blacked out even as it was being done.

[dr_who]

Russian animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUoEBR_PokA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNXX3kWoQGk

[clamper1797]

BTT

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Wow

[Soothesayer]

Woooow. It’s like she just tosses the sand there and it does whatever she tells it to do.

[beericus]

Wow, Ugos really do have talent!!! that was awesome

[beericus]

Wow, Ugos really do have talent!!! that was awesome

[sinanju]

Amazing indeed.

She kinda, sorta distorts matters just a wee bit by insinuating everything was sweetness and light before the Germans invaded. The Ukraine had been brutalized even more horribly a few years earlier by Stalin’s terror-famine and initially the Ukrainians had high hopes that Hitler would give them a better deal and at first welcomed the Germans.

If she did another work dedicated to the Holodomor however, she’d probably suffer an unfortunate accident...

[ConservativeMind]

Beautiful.

[primeval patriot]

That was very nice - thanks for posting.

Beautiful girl too.

The Great Patriotic War Museum is a must see if you’re ever passing through Kiev.

Between the Soviet famine and WWII the Ukrainians have suffered terribly.

[Mama Shawna]

Yes, it is. Posted this on my facebook page, hoping to help it go viral. AMAZING!

[GeronL]

That is pretty wild.

[Tonytitan]

Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.

[Darnright]

You find the most amazing things on Free Republic. Thanks.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Also very much worth seeing is the war memorial in Crimea near Sevastopol.

It sits on a hill and there is a large diorama there in the main building.

What you eventually realize is that you are standing on a mass grave.

[romanesq]

It’s an indescribable and moving piece. Words fail.

[romanesq]

It’s not that things were great under communism, it’s that the level of brutality and massive loss of life increased with the Nazi invasion.

Three million died and many people in the capital Kiev perished at the hands of the Nazis. It was high both numerically and in the percentage of the population.

And it followed not long after the brutality of the Stalin imposed famine killing millions more.

It doesn’t take away from the beauty of her work.

[Soothesayer]

Somehow I don’t think Ukraine is big on freedom of speech.

[tarawa]

Thank you for posting this. Very unique.