"This Menora in Drobytskyi Yar near Kharkiv never threatened anyone. It commemorates the memory of over 15.000 Jews murdered by Nazis. Damaged by Russian shelling today. Why Russia keeps attacking Holocaust Memorials in Ukraine? I expect Israel to strongly condemn this barbarism. pic.twitter.com/m7AiT4zlBg"
The media should report that Russia damaged a memorial to Jews murdered by the Nazis in Ukraine. Putin's reason for invading Ukraine is "to remove the Nazis from Ukraine". There aren't any Nazis in Ukraine. Only barbaric Russian soldiers obeying their barbaric, autocratic dictator, Putin.
Why is the Russian Ambassador allowed to speak at the U.N. Security Council Meeting today when everything he said was a lie. Talk about mis-information. Why is Russia allowed to be in the U.N. ? Kick them out. Putin is a 'barbarian.' Russia is telling their citizens that this is a 'special military operation' in Ukraine to attack neo-nazis and russian-speaking people in Ukraine." WHAT A LIE !
I could not believe my ears and eyes at pictures of Russian soldiers ATTACKING A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ! WHAT ?!?!? IMHO, WWIII has already started.
Barbarians. Putin is conducting a 20th century war in the 21st century! He thinks he can stop all information to his citizens through traditional, fascist 'crack down on the Press' methods'. I don't. In the 21st century and social media, it is impossible to 'hide information.' It will flow into Russia despite Putin. Russian people seem to know that as they are protesting by the thousands. By last count, almost 8,000 people have been thrown in jail in Russia for protesting ! Everyone has a smart phone except for Putin. Zelensky's phone is glued to his hand. Not Putin. Zelensky puts out videos everyday on Instagram with several updates per day. Not Putin. Yesterday I saw Putin in a meeting with Flight Attendants surrounded by green plants. What ?!?! Bizarre. Does he really think people are going to believe all his lies ????
Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba characterized the russian soldiers as 'beasts' and 'animals', i.e. barbarians. We agree.
When I was a little girl going to the Robert Treat Paine School in Dorchester, we had 'nuclear war drills'. We were told to get under our desks. A week ago I saw russian soldiers shooting at a Nuclear Power Plant ! Not only are they barbarians, but they are psycho, irrational nutcakes ! At age 9 I had to worry about nuclear war - in high school we were still worried but not for the last 50 years until NOW.
VERIFICATION
I just came across this article about Bob Dylan's reaction to the War in Ukraine. Of course he says everything better than me. But we had the SAME experience ! Hiding under the desks...
The second leg of Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour has been
pressing on with lost love, growing old and what is being seen as a
direct protest about Putin’s insane war on the land of his fathers.
Bob, like so many of us, was a victim of Cold War propaganda. In
Chronicles, he wrote about how children in small-town America were
taught to see Russians as a threat.
He wrote: “One of the things we were trained to do was to hide
and take cover under our desks when the air-raid sirens blew, because
the Russians could attack us with bombs,” he wrote. “We were told that
the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time.
These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a
few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit
our throats and incinerate us.”
And in so many ways this is the scenario coming out of the Ukraine
now as so many old men – and women too – take to the streets armed often
only with anger, pride, fear and ancient guns.
"It's
my view that Russia should also be suspended from its permanent seat on
the UN Security Council, or at the very least be stripped of its veto
power there. A few years ago Putinist Oligarchy lost Russia its place in
G-8, returning it to the previous G-7; similarly there must be
consequences for Putin's imposition of neo-Stalinism and a resurgent
UOKR (Union of Oligarchic Kleptocratic Republics). Expulsion from the
Council of Europe is a rational, necessary step."
In 1910, my grandparents, Minnie Raigarovsky and Morris Sandler got on a ship, left Russia, the Pale of Settlement area, and came to America. Why ? My Zaidy, Morris Sandler told me, while sitting at the Shabbat table on Friday night, that he fled the country "so I wouldn't have to fight for the Czar. The Czar's army was snatching up little boys in local villages to fight for the Czar. Most of them were never seen again.
Today I read this in the Washington Post: "The Union of the Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia, a human rights group, has said young conscripts were forced into signing contracts and taken to fight in the assault on Ukraine." 112 years later, history repeats itself.
Roby did the geneological research showing where Bubby and Zaidy came from. He sent me this map showing the Former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He circled Moscow, Kiev, Liepovitz and Shepetovka in red. The red circle to the far left is Warsaw.
