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Dont miss this amazing Video Clip. First read about it before watching

This video shows the winner of "Ukraine’s Got Talent", Kseniya

Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how

ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her

talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.

The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and

she won the top prize of about $130,000.00

She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench

under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.

It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman

smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos

from which a young woman’s face appears.

She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns

into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.

This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the

monument from within a house.

In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside,

with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.

The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the

population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42

million.

Kseniya Simonova says: "I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and

pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art,

especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience

members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg

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Also, western tanks are designed for the 95% quartile of male body sizes while the Soviets, due to a much larger conscript pool, allowed the designers to go down to the 5% quartile (only the shortest 5% of all people, most of which were then assigned to the armor corps without being asked about individual preferences).

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