and obvious war crimes. and for some of them, whether it is through family stories, whether it is through what they saw with their own eyes, when they were just small children, this is another example of war on their soil there, and atrocities before their eyes. you talk to an elderly woman who called these russians germans and you have then questioned her again, germans, she said, yes, how else am i supposed to call them, comparing them to some of the atrocities perpetrated at the hands of nazis in world war ii. that was something that stuck with me, very vividly when she said germans. she offered that without any prompt. this war for ukrainians is essentially been named the same action the second world war, patriotic war. that s what ukrainians think this is. they feel that their very existence, survival as a nation has been questioned by vladimir putin. that is why that is what is
people have crossed recently. we spoke earlier to a group of chinese students who just made it out. but these men over here, they are actually from georgia. they have been chopping wood all morning because they say, back in 2008, they went through something similar when russia invaded georgia. and they came because they know what it is like and they wanted to help. stephanie? alison, tell us more about the people of poland. when they see these refugees, when they help them, do they see their grandparents remembering what happened, hearing their family stories of what their own families experienced in world war ii? you know, it is amazing because one of the things that we have heard from a lot of polish persons, when we ask, why do you want to come and help? a lot of the cars we see our polish peoples cars and they hold signs with the names of other cities in poland and they put a number of people and the number is the number of open seats they have. because they want to give
but it is happening everywhere, it is what is happening in ukraine. we talked about stalin killed maybe 3 to 4 million ukrainians in the 1930s. this is still a living memory for so many people in ukraine and across europe right now. yeah. i think unfortunately a lot of people who experienced that, who survived that are no longer with us, which makes me wonder if that s one of the reasons we re repeating this. as you know, like you and me, we grew up with these memories, this is trauma passed down generation to generation. it is kind of the whole cloth of our family stories is survival around getting out in the nick of time. do your parents hoard food? no. my mom does, hides it. no, but my mom has not been able to stop crying because of the memories, because of what