The Western silence weighs more than the stones covering the nameless graves of the innocent.
It feels like reading the intrepid Soviet writer and journalist Vassily Grossman, who, after the Red Army reconquered Kyiv from the Nazis, described what he saw the German forces had done.
“Two-year-old children massacred… Eighty-year-olds massacred, their eyes clouded by cataracts, with cold, transparent fingers and nearly imperceptible voices… Newborns massacred while they greedily suckled their mothers’ breasts until the last minute.”
