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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Borodyanka, which the Russians captured less than 2 weeks into the war, when they were in the kinder, gentler phase of their invasion, and held for a month, is mostly flattened. The
I always trust NPR to tell me the unvarnished Objective Truth!
Dresden was a British-American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city.[1] The bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed more than 1,600 acres (6.5 km2) of the city centre.[2] An estimated 22,700[3] to 25,000[4] people were killed.[a]
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.
Good old Bomber Harris.
Pathetic.
Dresden, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima are all cities in countries that DECLARED WAR ON US.
(And yeah, Dresden is a city in a country that Britain declared war on because it brutally invaded Poland.)
The depths to which you Putinistas will drop yourself to to defend your multibillionaire corruptocrat that wants to re-establish the USSR is…
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The depths to which you Putinistas will
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You don’t have a clue how ridiculous that is.
Only a Putin worshipping degenerate wouldn't.
The claims of 30+ US biowar laboratories on Ukrainian soil are real; that by itself would jusify the Russian operation. One of those labs was working on aerosolized rabies (what could go wrong...), another on a DNA-based weapon to specifically target people of Russian ancestry.
The Ukrainian military is a bunch of Nazis.
That does not add up to a team that I would ever root for...
Who ever would have thought that the liberals and Lefties would be all teary eyed for an overwhelmingly White, Christian country in Eastern Europe?
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My apologies...I forgot to add a sarcasm tag in my last post to you. It’s so hard to tell these days what’s serious and what isn’t...I took that for granted...lol
If you're sitting in your house and somebody breaks in and starts assailing you, any action you take in defense of yourself is legal, while every action he takes against you is a crime.
[History truly can be farce.
Who ever would have thought that the liberals and Lefties would be all teary eyed for an overwhelmingly White, Christian country in Eastern Europe? ]
I can think of more than a few buidings in Iraq destroyed in Bush’s war. Did Iraq declare war on the U.S before GW2. If anything it was the Iranian mullahocracy that should have been invaded and toppled. It would have cut off Hezbollah, Assad and Hamas in one fell swoop. But dumb as a rock Bush couldnt help himself
Read every site, look at various pictures. They all say the same - Putin’s army committed massacres of civilians
Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 77 years ago.
Are you really trying to equate Russian massacres of today with actions 3 generations ago?
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