The Great Patriotic War — In Sand

by Kevin Jon Heller

If you haven’t seen this already, you should. The eight-minute video shows the winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent, 24-year-old Kseniya Simonova, dramatizing the effect of Operation Barbarossa on the Ukraine through a series of drawings on an illuminated sand table. It is absolutely mesmerizing — beautiful, disturbing, moving. As you will see, many members of the audience were in tears. So was I when I watched it.

Hat-Tip: My mom.

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3 Responses

  1. Wow, that is amazing and gorgeous!

    1.25.2010
    at 4:32 am EST A

  2. Wow.

    1.25.2010
    at 1:50 pm EST Mike Innes

  3. Yes, that was very impressive.

    It did take me a second to recognize Apocalyptica’s version of “Nothing Else Matters” there at the end.

    1.26.2010
    at 3:47 pm EST M. Gross

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