Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "01 Dec: Russians ARE SURROUNDING a KEY CITY, Bakhmut | War in Ukraine Explained" video.
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Your reports never fail to completely capture my attention, as few other things do (I wish I could concentrate this hard on Ukrainian grammar, I'd be a fluent speaker by now). But as I listen, watch, and understand things I'd never really understood before, the names of all these little places, the roads connecting one to the other, the different landscapes, all keep snagging at my heart. I grew up in small towns where you may travel to the next town or village because they have a shop you don't have nearby, or your relatives live there, or you get a seasonal job, I commuted to school on the slow bus that stops at every little place to pick everybody up, hiked to the top of one of those hills for a summer picnic with my cousins. Many of my relatives still live in areas so similar to the ones described in these reports. I'm sure this isn't the sort of comment expected under a video like this one, and I keep trying to push these thoughts to the back of my mind and concentrate on the frontline update, which is after all what I'm here for (because, as everybody keeps saying, it's THE BEST). But I've decided to keep both sides of it on my mind from now on. Not least because I also grew up with WW2 stories from my grandparents and aunts: all the places that were full of life when I was a kid (and mostly still are - there's been a few earthquakes since) were absolute hellholes in the early to mid 1940s, with battles, summary executions, torture, terror, and yes, shelling by liberating forces. The scars remained for a long time - turns out I commuted to school over unexploded British ordnance for two years - but the places, as well as the people, somehow recovered. As will these towns and villages, hills, fields and forests.
Sooooorry I went on so long...! Дякую за вашу працю, слава Україні 💙💛
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