Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing

YouTube borrowed from Marshmallow

The 2009 winner of the Ukraine's Got Talent contest was sand animator Kseniya Simonova, who became an overnight Internet sensation, receiving over two million visitors to her various YouTube videos. Simonova, utilizing a multimedia approach of animation, music and showmanship depicted the German invasion and occupation of the Ukraine during World War II and the loss and suffering of the Ukrainian people.

As The Telegraph noted: 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.

Mister Ghost says:

And the words she wrote at the end:
Ты всегда рядом
They mean you're always near/close, kind of like, we'll always keep you in our thoughts.

The songs were lovely too - I think the intro song was from Schindler's List - then, it was Russian singer Марk Бернес (Mark Bernes - the Frank Sinatra of Russia) singing Темная ночь (A Dark night) & Журавли (Cranes). Then Apocalyptica doing a wonderful cover version of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters.

A Dark Night lyrics

A dark gloomy night
only bullets whistle in the steppe
only the wind roars in the wires
the stars dimly shine

In the dark gloomy night
you my beloved I know do not sleep
and at the child's crib out of sight
you wipe a tear

How I love
the depth of you sweet eyes
how I want
to press against them now with my lips

The dark gloomy night
separates us my beloved
and the cold dark steppe
has lain between us

Death doesn't frighten me
I've met her not once in the steppe
and here now
it is circling above me

You are awaiting me
and at the crib do not sleep
and so I know
nothing will happen to me.