WORSE THAN THE FASCISTS

This is the lament that launches, between sobs, an old man in the besieged city of Mariupol, according to the testimony presented by the North American chain CNN. The people with him nod their heads.
Another of the most devastating impacts has been knowing the death, in a bombing, of a former survivor of the Nazi death camps during the Second World War.
Boris Romanchenko, 96, managed to survive the Buchenwald Nazi camp, but died last Monday in the town of Kharkiv, where he lived. Russian forces killed him in a bombardment where half a dozen of his companions were injured.
President Zelensky posted a photo of Romanchenko dressed in the striped pajamas of boarding schools in Buchenwald on social media. Zelensky asked the Israeli president, Bennet, to intervene with Putin to stop the war, but the Russian tyrant ignored
this requirement.
The similarities with the second world conflict are not lacking. The siege of Mariunpol has been compared by the Ukrainians to the one Leningrad suffered by the German army.
But arguably it's even worse. In Mariunpol they are digging graves in the middle of the streets to bury their dead, given the danger of going to the cemeteries, which have also been bombed, which is perhaps one of the most sinister images of the Russian invasion.
The British chain Sky News has attested to these burials in the street due to the danger of the decomposition of the corpses, even if the temperature is glacial.
What will remain, after the war, of the old friendship between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples? Little or nothing, say the seconds. Putin's propaganda has led many Russians to believe that war does not exist, that the "special operation" is not directed against civilians.
But the reality is different. The destruction of a shopping center in Kyiv, with a provisional death toll of eight, is another war crime. In this and other similar cases, Putin, Lavrov and other Russian military officials unashamedly affirm that these buildings were warehouses for Ukrainian weapons. An assertion without convincing evidence.
Russian propaganda is the closest thing to "Goebbels", say the besieged in Mariunpol and elsewhere. “Putin is not going to recognize his war of extermination; no dictator would do it, but the facts are there and cannot be hidden”, they point out in the besieged city.
The British BBC assures that in Mariunpol more than 2,500 civilians have died, and that 90 percent of the buildings have been destroyed or seriously damaged by the bombs and missiles launched by the invading army.