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This is what a Ukraine town looks like after Russian troops withdraw
National Public Radio ^ | April 9, 2022 at 2:00 AM PDT | Scott Detrow, Kat Lonsdorf, Noah Caldwell, Nickolai Hammar

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?"

(Excerpt) Read more at knkx.org ...


TOPICS: Russia
KEYWORDS: biden; chechens; chechnya; putin; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; ukraine; zottherussiantrolls
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To: Travis McGee

Yeah, and I roundly condemned our actions in Serbia. We had no business getting so involved in that family feud.


61 posted on 04/10/2022 7:22:47 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six
There were entire nations who were full of very angry people because of what the Germans did to them. The Germans started the destruction of civilian cities when they participated in the Spanish civil war. They repeated it when they entered Poland, and any other nation they invaded. The Germans bombed London for 257 straight days and nights. Then they wiped out Coventry and a few other small cites in England.

Anyone who weeps for Dresden doesn't understand the times.

62 posted on 04/10/2022 7:38:40 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: tlozo

Those two men are both Ukrainian and that is some pretty bad photoshop...you absolute moron.


63 posted on 04/10/2022 7:40:54 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: ganeemead

This cheerleader needs to be sat in the corner with a furry hat and a quart of vokda if he hasn’t already slugged down a quart. Only thing missing was a rousing chorus of rah rah Pootie.


64 posted on 04/10/2022 7:47:58 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: mac_truck
Those two men are both Ukrainian and that is some pretty bad photoshop...you absolute moron.

Sure and the video of it all is also fake. Pro Russian Pushilin, head of the DPR, posted the video himself, Pootie fan.

Video shared by Storyful shows a soldier, named as Lieutenant Roman Vorobyov from the "Somalia" motorized rifle battalion, receiving the "St. George's Cross II" award while wearing far-right insignia.

Receiving the award on Sunday from Denis Pushilin, who is the Putin-sponsored head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, two patches are visible on Vorobyov's right arm.

One is a modified version of a skull-and-crossbones emblem used by Nazi Germany's 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf, an elite division of the Waffen-SS. The other is the Valknut, or Odin's knot, which is a symbol of interlocking triangles from Norse mythology commonly used by neo-Nazis.

Pushilin posted the video of him presenting the award on his Telegram channel and said that a unit led by Vorobyov and another lieutenant, Andrey Nikulin, had killed "more than 40 militants."

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-mariupol-azov-nazi-1695125

65 posted on 04/10/2022 7:57:20 AM PDT by tlozo (Trump-the Russian invasion of Ukraine is " truly a crime against humanity")
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To: GingisK

“Anyone who weeps for Dresden doesn’t understand the times.”

I’m not “weeping” for Dresden. I just said it was horrific (it was, unless one is a sadist), and that it was over-kill (it was).

And I’m not “weeping” for the Luftwaffe bombing England, either. And, you know what? Neither did my mother, who was an English girl during the war, and went through the bombing. She said the bombing of Britain just pissed off the Brits all the more, and strengthened their resolve. The Brits wanted pay-back, and they were determined to get it. And they did.


66 posted on 04/10/2022 7:59:40 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: tlozo
Even the ADL distinguishes the difference between a skull & bones and a Waffen SS Totenkopf.

Hate symbols: SS Totenkopf

-btw Here is what the Waffen Totenkopf looks like in case you've forgotten.


67 posted on 04/10/2022 8:26:29 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Thanks Zhang Fei.

68 posted on 04/10/2022 8:31:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: redcatcherb412

Whatcha gonna do two weeks from now when Ukraine surrenders and they hang that sick pervert Zelenski?


69 posted on 04/10/2022 9:25:44 AM PDT by ganeemead
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To: AAABEST
STFU. You sound dumb as ever.

Yeah, you seem like the picture of mental health.... Your post from another thread, a few days ago:

Hopefully Soros-boy Zelenski gets run over by a T-80. Then, hopefully, it backs up and runs him over again.

Then run the multinational fraud over a 3rd time.

Then a 4th time... so I can have a good laugh.

70 posted on 04/10/2022 10:05:14 AM PDT by Yossarian
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

We can no longer take ANYTHING for granted ;)


71 posted on 04/10/2022 10:06:26 AM PDT by SE Mom
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To: ganeemead

Спасибо (Thanks).

72 posted on 04/10/2022 10:16:54 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

Vladimir Putin converted to Christianity while he was still employed by the KGB; think you’d have the cajones to do that??


73 posted on 04/10/2022 10:32:53 AM PDT by ganeemead
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To: ganeemead

A “Christian” KGB agent? Don’t make me laugh.


74 posted on 04/10/2022 10:43:17 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: All
Letters from Ukrainian chiildren to Russian soldiers (thanking them),...

"Спасиба большое" (...что спасли нас...). I.e. Thanks for saving us from those ******* azov nazis...

75 posted on 04/10/2022 10:49:59 AM PDT by ganeemead
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To: datura
You mean..


76 posted on 04/10/2022 10:50:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Graybeard58

For the longest time after WW2 the Soviets pushed the casualties at Dresden as over 100,000. This was a propaganda move to “show” how bad the West was. Much later the true figures came out. I think they used some Dresden pics in the 1966 British docudrama THE WAR GAME.


77 posted on 04/10/2022 10:57:15 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: ganeemead
Vladimir Putin converted to Christianity while he was still employed by the KGB; think you’d have the cajones to do that??

You're deluded. No Christian poisons his political rivals.

78 posted on 04/10/2022 11:01:04 AM PDT by Yossarian
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To: bravo whiskey

This was Warsaw in 1945....F Dresden!

79 posted on 04/10/2022 11:04:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: All
A man is judged by the company he keeps. Anybody shilling for Zelenski and the ukronazis in this one is keeping company with all the biggest villains in the world: Rothschilds, the US demopoop party, the deep-state, NATO, the EU, B.H. Obama, Clintons, Breadline Joe and Hunter-Gatherer Biden, central bankers, the UK, WEC, Soros, Satan, Shamesh.... every single one of them...

This fight is pure good vs. evil, Christian nation vs Nazi nation. No rational person should want to be on the wrong side of this one.

80 posted on 04/10/2022 11:05:16 AM PDT by ganeemead
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