Posted on 04/09/2022 10:02:40 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
In the final days of the occupation, Natasha says, a Russian soldier confronted her. She had ventured out to milk her cow, and he thought she was scouting Russian troop locations. She says he took her out to the middle of the road and pointed a gun to her head.
"He was threatening me," she says. "And what did I say to him? I said I just wish one thing: that he would see my face for the rest of his days, so he would never forget what he's done here."
The soldier spoke to someone else on his radio. Then, Natasha says, he let her go.
Her name is Ludmila Boiko.
"My sister and her son lived here. This is what's left of them," she says, pointing to a pile of old notebooks. "His mother kept his old notebooks from school."
Ludmila found them scattered around the debris of the apartment building. That and some pictures, she says, are the only things she's found.
Ludmila's sister Olyna Vahnenko was 56. Her nephew, Yuri, was 24. He had just graduated college.
They'd left their apartment and sought shelter. But on March 1, during a break in the shelling and bombing, Olyna and Yuri went back. Ludmila says they talked on the phone, and Olyna said they had been able to shower and eat some food.
An hour later, Russian forces destroyed the building.
"Our friends were trying to help us, but for four days, it was a huge fire here," Ludmila says. "And so first they were trying to fight the fire. They didn't have a chance to do excavations right away."
So Ludmila sat, and waited.
"I was so close with them that I don't even know how I should live now. How should I live in this place?"
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Is there anyway for them to make Russia pay for cleanup and rebuild?
Are you really trying to equate Russian massacres of today with actions 3 generations ago?
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No, sorry if that’s what you got out of it.
Your rant reads like bad fan-fic!
Regards,
That, my FRiend, is an interesting question - one that has received far too little attention up till now.
All this talk about returning to the status quo ante bellum avoids the issue of reparations - because, realistically, Russia would have to pay Ukraine trillions of dollars.
Regards,
“I always trust NPR to tell me the unvarnished Objective Truth!”
The commenters calling their patriotic fellow citizens “Putin’s puppets” will not get the sarcasm. They’ll agree with you, in earnest, that NPR is a bastion of the truth — that NPR loves us and wants us to live and, that Putin stole the 2016 election from Hillary.
You did equate it.
And then “We won’t discuss the loss of lives and destruction in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Death is a component of all wars and a very necessary component, such as the above mentioned examples”
We do discuss these lives lost, but we didn’t target civilians as Putin’s army is doing.
The objective of the Russians apparently was to bomb them into the stone age so they would not be a threat VDH podcasts have been illuminating
So the pics are all fake? Is that your point?
BTW, those two pics weren’t directed you, ZF.
You are pro-Putin scrum. Putin takes great pride in his role in subverting America. He recently said, “Russia has no borders” meaning Russia is expandable.
It's called "collateral damage" when we do it.
Video clip of Zelensky playing piano with penis, behind piano.
Old clip shows Zelensky going ‘balls out’ for ‘Hava Nagila’
In 2016, the future Ukrainian leader participated in a ‘piano four hands’ routine, without the hands
https://www.timesofisrael.com/old-clip-shows-zelensky-going-balls-out-for-hava-nagila/
Serbia, Iraq, Libya etc were not 3 generations ago.
But it’s just “collateral damage” when we do it, because our motives are so pure and innocent.
Civilian Deaths in the Iraq War
https://www.statista.com/statistics/269729/documented-civilian-deaths-in-iraq-war-since-2003/
Civilian casualties are the deaths of non-military individuals as a result of military operations. The number of documented civilian deaths in the Iraq war peaked in 2006 at 29,517 casualties. Since then, the number had fallen to 4,162 casualties documented in the year 2011, and the number of casualties has been decreasing since 2014. Due to the nature of the Iraq war and of war reporting, data cannot be considered exact. Many civilian deaths that occurred during the war in Iraq may remain unaccounted for.
The Iraq war was launched in March 2003 upon the invasion of Iraq by US forces. Eight years later, in December 2011, the US formally declared an end to the Iraq war. From the start of the war in 2003 until September 30, 2015, it is estimated that the United States spent a total of over 819 billion US dollars on war costs in Iraq. This number includes funding requested by the President and appropriated by Congress, and accounts for both military and non-military spending.
Spending was highest in 2008, that year over 142 billion US dollars were spent in Iraq by the United States government. As of 2019, about 7,990 U.S. active-duty military personnel were deployed in North Africa, the Near East, and South Asia.
The number of US American soldiers killed in Iraq peaked in 2007 with just over nine hundred causalities. In the same year, there were over 25,000 civilian deaths in Iraq.
The Ukrainian military is a bunch of Nazis.
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All 300-350 (before the war) of them. Who cares about Neo-Nazis all of a sudden? Nazi Hitler was a piker, compared to Communist Stalin in the mass murder business. And its Communist Pootie who wants to resurrect Communist Stalin’s USSR. So what’s a few Nazis?
You should be outraged that Putin's invasion has brought misery, devastation, and death to Ukraine affecting millions.
“Russia has no borders” meaning Russia is expandable.
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Russia borders on whatever country it wishes on any given day. Just yesterday it bordered on Syria.
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