Posted on 04/04/2022 3:18:11 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
She finished her university education and became an engineer, got married and had a son. Later she divorced and remarried in her 40s to Valerii Verbitski, whom she described as a "good man."
Her life was simple and peaceful.
That peace lasted until February 24, when Russian forces launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine, barreling through her city, shelling neighborhoods, blowing up a government building, and encircling Kharkiv's estimated 1.4 million residents.
"There was no water or power, we couldn't buy food. It became impossible to live," she said, "The air raid sirens never stopped, there was explosion after explosion. A real war."
Weeks of indiscriminate shelling by Russian forces have terrorized the residents of Kharkiv. Tens of thousands have now fled Ukraine's second-largest city in moments when rare and unreliable evacuation corridors are agreed.
At first, Margaryta chose to stay and care for her now-frail and sick husband, while leaning on a generous neighbor for support. But the fighting grew closer and closer to their home.
"An explosion blew out all our windows. After that shock, Valerii grew weaker. It was like his legs were cut out from under him."
The siege and relentless bombardment took its toll: Margaryta awoke on the morning of March 20 to find her husband had passed away in his sleep.
"We couldn't bury him because of the fighting. His body is still in the morgue."
Not even a memorial that honors Kharkiv's Holocaust victims was spared from Putin's so-called denazification campaign. The menorah-shaped monument was pockmarked by shelling, two of its branches twisted and blown off.
A nearby plaque reads: "In December 1941 - January 1942 Nazis annihilated the Kharkov Jewish Ghetto in Drobitsky Yar - more than 16 thousands people - the aged, women, children - only because they were Jews."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
“Ukrainian Holocaust survivor narrowly escapes being denazified. Some of her civilian compatriots in government positions weren’t as lucky, ending up in mass graves denazification compounds below ground.”
Nice irony.
CNN needs three people to write these articles.
Videos and pictures of the destruction in the Ukraine were obviously created on a Hollywood screen set.
Good catch Jo
Care to give a calm explanation?
Hey, your shift is over! Getting carried away with work or need to get a bonus?
Why no videos here? The Russians left 4 days before the new photos. Follow the story. Don't be stampeded again like Iraq WMD, Serbia, Libya, Syria, etc.
I didn’t think so.
Come on Jo, you know they do. How else are those fake videos and photos produced if they are fake and have never taken place?
Stop confusing us.......
“All lies and more lies.”
I missed where Ukraine had attacked and bombed Russia. Perhaps you can enlighten us all as to how this war is somehow defending a country that wasn’t attacked?
You are wasting your time on these weak minded fools. They will ask the same question over and over just as posters on this thread are after you already posted what is going on.
why doesn’t Zuckerberg take care of them? I guess he’s too busy rigging elections here to bother with them.
You claim Hollywood has nothing to do with them and I tend to believe you even tho you seem to be contradicting yourself.
So, are these photos and videos taken from past Hollywood movies? If not, where are they coming from if they're not real???????????
Your answers are in post 9 of this thread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941)
Tell her to stay out of Lviv. That place conducted it’s own holocaust and murdered their Jews the day after the Nazi army arrived in WWII.
Also tell her to avoid Azov, especially the ones that have SS tattoos and runes on their helmets.
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