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Amazing Sand Animation Recounts German Occupation of Ukraine

Young, attractive, and extremely talented sand painter Kseniya Simonova (Ксения Симонова) recounts the German invasion and occupation of Ukraine in 1941 on Ukraine's Got Talent (Україна має талант). She won the 1,000,000 hryvnia prize (about $125,000 US).

There were over 1 million lives lost in the initial invasion. Germany conquered and occupied Ukraine under a ge More..

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  • true art

    Posted Aug-18-2009 by "yaleoo" (R) Chile

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  • That was absolutely awesome!

    Posted Aug-18-2009 by "Sengine" (R) United States

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  • Wow! That is the unrealist thing I have seen in a long,long time. She has my vote!!

    Posted Aug-18-2009 by "mdp1nvegas" (R) United States

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  • Brilliant story-tellling evokes deep human emotion. Many have been moved, myself included. A lot of people suffered mass genocide and there was NO justification for it. Had it happened to a pile of rapists and murderers, I'd be all for it! But NOT innocent people!

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "terminateyou" (R) United States

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  • HOT and TALENTED!

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "averbakh" (R) United States

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  • Quoted comment by Steve677: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

    Why isn't she doing a sand animation about this genocide that occured in the Ukraine ? It was estimated that up to 10 million people, including children, lost their lives in that event that occured just a few years earlier than WW 2. I know the answer.

    That would be the NKVD starving thier own people.
    The Russians were at least if not more murderous than the Germans, and since thier regime lasted 60 years, The Russians eclipsed the German's war time atrocities by millions of murders.
    Stalin & Co. were the most murderous bunch in history.
    Yes, I know about Mao.

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "viewer1962" (R) United States

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  • Now thats talent! makes the UK show look like shite! VOTED

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "ddhh1" (R) United Kingdom (UK/GB)

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  • well i never saw it, so thanks. I absolutely loved it. Wish i had an inch of her creativity.

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "SHEEPLES" (R) Canada

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  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

    Why isn't she doing a sand animation about this genocide that occured in the Ukraine ? It was estimated that up to 10 million people, including children, lost their lives in that event that occured just a few years earlier than WW 2. I know the answer.

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "Steve677" (R) Canada

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  • Quoted comment by Horno: This got tagged "repost." I did *extensive* searches on LiveLeak for this video. "Sand Painting," "Ukraine," "Ukraine's Got Talent," "Kseniya Simonova," and more, and came up with NOTHING relating to this video.

    Search does not work. At all.

    Yeah, I posted this a couple days ago not realizing it had already been posted.
    The tags I used were sand,
    art,
    cool,
    Ukraine.
    I know, not great tags.
    I was out of town for a week so I probably missed the first posting.
    Yes, the search function is this sites weakest link for sure ;o)

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "Tongueboy" (R) United States

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  • This is a repost, but the tags are different. I am not the repost police though, so I'll just move on....

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "a1580082" (R)

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  • brilliant and sad.

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "paulingrad" (R) United Kingdom (UK/GB)

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  • Quoted comment by Horno: This got tagged "repost." I did *extensive* searches on LiveLeak for this video. "Sand Painting," "Ukraine," "Ukraine's Got Talent," "Kseniya Simonova," and more, and came up with NOTHING relating to this video.

    Search does not work. At all.

    doesn't matter, its thought provoking for those of us who missed it.

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "Fukmup" (R) United States

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  • can't imagine what it would have been like,

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "Fukmup" (R) United States

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  • Simply amazing! i can't even imagine what those people went through during that time.

    props to her using "Nothing Else Matters" Metallica/Apocoliptica

    Posted Aug-17-2009 by "trainwreckmetal" (R) United States

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