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Holodomor survivor on ‘the worst war’

December 9, 2022

Lyubov Yarosh, a 102-year-old Ukrainian, survived World War II and the Holodomor, the devastating Great Famine across Soviet-era Ukraine. But she says the current war is the most brutal she has witnessed.

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