Ukrainians with ties to Russia like Olha Tverdokhlibova didn’t embrace the invasion, despite what Russian President Putin might have expected
“Today, you are defending what our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought for,” he said. “Our duty is to preserve the memory of those who crushed Nazism.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose grandfather fought in World War II, also sought to turn the tables on the Russian narrative on Monday.. “And we will not allow anyone to annex this victory, we will not allow it to be appropriated.”“You can’t make war like that, killing children,” Oleksiy Tkachenko, who served in a tank regiment in Crimea, said in a post for news portal Ukrainian Truth. “Come on, comrades. You can’t do that.”Ms.
She located the suspected plant beneath a hospital, surrounded by barbed wire and frequented by trucks. She confirmed the location after befriending an elderly German guard, she said, who offered candies to the childish girl with two thin pigtails. The Soviets bombed the plant. She was in Berlin for the Soviet victory and recalled the euphoria, a dance with a marshal of the Soviet Union and the smell of a meal made from an American can of meat, which she shared with German children.
She worked in the Vinnytsia branch, where one day she had to handle the file of a family friend—a medical orderly who had been branded a Polish spy and enemy of the people during the Great Terror a decade earlier.She said she was tasked with writing a letter to the man’s wife, years after his death, explaining belatedly that he had died of a heart attack while in jail. In fact, she said, his body had been found during excavations in a park with a bullet hole in the back of his head.
But she also noted what she called the positive side of Soviet rule: five-year economic plans, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Plant, Yuri Gagarin’s space flight.
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