some of the comments on YouTube :
@0:00 — Peace, Love
@1:30 — Original announcement of the German Army invading the country and bombing the cities
@4:10 — Perished
@5:00 — Most people don’t know where their loved ones were buried, hence the obelisk which signifies the remembrance of everyone who gave their lives during the World War II.
@8:20 — “You are always close. 1945”
It is about World War 2. First audio is news cast about the Nazi invasion, followed by a song “Dark Nights”. Final sand writing with mother & child, & ghostly image of the sailor, is “Your are always near by.” The Slavic people lost well over 30 million soldiers and common folk in WW2 , so even today the emotions are still strong for not only the old survivors, but also the younger generations.
The Ukraine was devastated in WWII. It suffered through a “scorched earth policy” twice, first by Stalin’s Soviet Russia and then by Hitler’s Nazi Germany. According to Alexander Werth (a Russian-born, naturalized British writer, journalist, and war correspondent), “Ukraine was, to the Germans, first and foremost a source of food; secondly, of coal, iron and other minerals; and thirdly, of slave labour.”
After 2076 days of war, V-E Day (Victory in Europe) was celebrated on May 8, 1945.
They were crying because either they or their folks lived through it. Scars like that run deep. The Ukraine was devastated in WWII. It suffered through a “scorched earth policy” twice, first by Stalin’s Soviet Russia and then by Hitler’s Nazi Germany. After 2076 days of war, V-E Day (Victory in Europe) was celebrated on May 8, 1945.