The slaughter in Bucha makes Russia’s nationalist mythology a lie | Opinion
Russians see themselves as a nation that triumphed over World War II injustice. Putin violated those values.The Warsaw Ghetto, Srebrenica, My Lai. These are among the most disturbing words in any language; just uttering them sends a chill down the spine.as many as 300 civilian bodies have been recovered in the environs of the Kyiv suburb, many with their hands tied behind their backs.
For the local people, such memories are fastened to the collective soul by constant retelling and memorializing. I have seen how that happened in Ireland, where people on both sides can recite details of massacres that sometimes happened centuries before. As with any scars, the wounds beneath these community memories can reopen and spew fresh blood at any time.
For the Russian people, this is a moral crossroads. They know as well as anyone how the Ukrainian people feel. Less than 30 miles from the mass graves in Bucha are the mass graves the Nazis dug for the bodies of Jewish residents of Kyiv in Babi Yar. The Nazis littered Soviet lands with such graves. A photograph of Kyiv residents aghast at the horrors around them taken when the Germans arrived in 1941 could easily be mistaken for an image from Bucha today.
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