my 92yo grandma also says don’t compare today’s russian crimes to nazi occupation of ukraine. because it is worse. whatever nazis done to her village during 2-year occupation doesn’t even come close to barbarity of russians in the last 40 days

my other ukrainian grandma, no longer with us, spent 2 years as a slave building nazi roads. she faced abuse but came back home alive to all her family members, also alive, after a 2-year nazi occupation. today her village is under russian occupation, folks disappear en masse

at the same time jewish and roma ukrainians were slaughtered like cattle by nazis. ukraine had the largest number of concentration camps in europe at the time. when nazi retreated mass murders were common. russians that replaced them did the same — only on a larger scale