NEVER? AGAIN.
May 9 has come, but I do not feel like writing about the great Victory of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers.
This is because another war is going right now, in which hundreds, if not thousands of people—the direct descendants of the 1945 victors—are dying daily.
Here are the stories of veterans of that war, which was called the Great Patriotic War in the USSR and World War II globally, veterans who died or suffered during the full-scale invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine:
Ivan Lysun, 97 years old — a frontline soldier from the age of 18, who fought his way to Germany. His house near Kharkiv was destroyed by the Russian army in May 2022. The veteran did not recover from the stress and died a month later.
Mykola Holub, 99 years old — survived the Holodomor, liberated the south of Ukraine and Moldova during World War II. He was forced to flee his home in the Luhansk region in June 2022.
Oleksandr Metalichenko, 96 years old, became a machine gunner at 18, liberated Kharkiv. He remains in the city today and prays for all people to survive the Russian shelling.
Boris Romanchenko, 96 years old — survived Buchenwald and three other concentration camps. Was killed by a shell hitting his apartment in Kharkiv on March 18, 2022.
Vanda Obyedkova, 91 years old — survived the Holocaust and the Nazi occupation of Mariupol. Was killed in a basement during the Russian blockade of Mariupol.
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of such stories.
Today is the time to remember them specifically.
Теги: Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism