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Ukraine's Got Talent : Winner

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    Ukraine's Got Talent : Winner

    Before you whinge, moan and generally gnash your teeth, I'm posting this for a number of reasons.

    1. It really puts us in our place here in the UK, with our wannabe Leona Lewis's, inner city dance troupes and other pointless acts.

    2. The story is deeply moving, regardless of the viewer. If you are from the Ukraine and Russia, the story will be particularly poignant.

    3. I've learnt something from her story, and been inspired to find out more, considering most of the audience were in tears, without her saying a single word. That's beyond awesome.


    Here it is. SFW.
    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

    C.S. Lewis

    #2
    This was posted a couple of days ago but is so amazing it deserves another outing.
    Please post the link to the story if you have it handy.
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      #3
      Amazing - never seen anything like that before - quite incredible.

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        #4
        From the depths of page 4 http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-tv-shows.html

        Yes, she is really very good.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Zippy View Post
          This was posted a couple of days ago but is so amazing it deserves another outing.
          Please post the link to the story if you have it handy.
          Ah, my apologies. I've been on holiday in Germany since Thursday and only got back Sunday.

          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.

          HTH
          Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

          C.S. Lewis

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            #6
            Don't apologise BGG. I'm sure lots of people missed the original post.

            Thanks for the additional info.
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              #7
              For once on this board

              Thank you very much for sharing that.

              Awesome.
              There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think

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                #8
                Originally posted by sunnysan View Post
                Thank you very much for sharing that.

                Awesome.
                You're welcome

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                  #9
                  I missed the original post.

                  Wow, incredible!

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                    #10
                    Fantastic, and such a pretty girl too. Ukraine women dress so feminine unlike the fatties wearing jogging pants in Tesco.
                    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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