Roots of Bucha, Borodyanka and Mariupol are in Holodomor

She survived because her five-year-old daughter (my grandmother) had a mug of soup with 5 beans in kindergarten, she ate two herself, and hid three in a dress pocket specially sewn by her mother, and carried them home so that her mother would not die.

They had no one else. And they took everything. Absolutely everything. In a village in Vinnytsia region with such fertile black soil, where apples grow from a stick. But then, in 1933, 1/10 of its inhabitants remained from this village. Others were killed by starvation, and one can hardly imagine a more terrible death.

Many years have passed since then. But pathological desire of Russians to destroy Ukrainians did not go anywhere. It also manifested itself during Second World War, when Ukrainians were condemned to the role of "cannon fodder". And it "bloomed in full bloom" all the years after Soviet Union collapse.

Then Russians again turned Cold War defeat complex against Ukrainians, organizing not five minutes, but five hours of propagandist hatred every day. All this inevitably led in one direction - to aggressive war and another genocide. This is the root of Bucha, Borodyanka, and Mariupol. There, deep essence of Russian people with its eternal desire to kill was revealed. To kill unconquered and free-loving Ukrainians.

Fortunately, 30 years of independence allowed us to become strong enough so that they could not simply come here and destroy us again with hunger or in their prisons.

And then missiles and this cold snap started. Remotely. Meanly. Against civilians and children, destroying all civilian infrastructure.  Proving in fact only one thing: they just want to destroy Ukrainians. As it was almost a hundred years ago.

But cold is not hunger. And we will survive it.  Now everything is different. The world is on our side. We have our greatest asset — army, our Armed Forces. And that's why we have a chance to finally break the cycle of tragic history of genocide and become so strong that it would be boring in the future.

Actually, we simply have no other choice.

About the author: Victoria Syumar, journalist, media expert.

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