Susan Boyle sit down, there's a new foreigner who has a ton of 'Talent.' 'Ukraine's Got Talent' winner Kseniya Simonova does something we've never seen before -- drawing in the sand. Set to music, Simonova depicts the invasion of Ukraine by Germany in World War II. Watch It!! In the over eight minute long performance, she shows the struggle and devastation of the country using only the sand and ends with the message "you are always near."  

amazing!

I almost cried in the end, she was absolutely amazing and the story was great

Thanks for sharing

amazing vid... thanks for sharing!!

she so GREAT

and quite a pretty woman too, i must say. I had seen sand painting before but nothing like this one. This is cream de la cream.

Found this one and it's great... esp. when u can relate urself with the story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOg1y0LQEQ&feature=related

I enjoyed ) thx..

she's brilliant artist...

Very touching .... She is also very beautiful ...

thx brakofdawning awesome as well

artists in general..a gift weither it be the gift of ....writing,music,canvas,food etc.

they seem to be able to create with whatever tools you give em' a gift is definitely a gift...

It is incredible! But Ukraine was one of 15 republics of the USSR. And you can use this show for all of that 15. About 20 millions people from the USSR were killed in this war. The last phrase means: " You are always with me". Russia was one of 15 too.

A truly beautiful presentation, thx for sharing Iain.

Pavel, yes, much of Russia suffered under the Nazis, but the privations were not much more savage (if at all) than those committed by Hitler's contemporary Stalin. I accept that many areas of the USSR came in for horrific treatment - Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Stalingrad (Now Volgograd), but one of the most terrible single atrocities was perpetrated in Ukraine, the murder of around 150,000 jews and their burial at Babi Yar,a ravine near Kyiv, commemorated in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13. This was perhaps the worst single crime the Nazis committed outside Poland where all 6 of the extermination camps responsible for implementing "die entlosen der Judenfrage" (the final solution to the Jewish question) were located. And for the 40 years following World War II, the USSR's occupation of large parts of central Europe was also brutal. Look at Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the attempts to crush the Polish independent trade union "Solidarity" in the 1980s. I'm not attempting to condone Nazism, but its exact opposite was no less dictatorial and no less imperialistic in its owm way.

Amazing... never seen anything like that.

Thanks Peter! I know the History. I just wanted to say that it was the Union and not only Ukraine suffered from Nazi Germany.

Amazing !!

Thanks Ian...that was really great!!

Drawing in the sand isn't a new thing. I have seen that many times, but She was good tho'.

Thanks for sharing, Iain_D. If it wasn't you (and PeterH61) I would miss it.

I tawt I taw a wabbit!!!

I did! I did!!

the wickle gween bunny wabbit is back!!!

hoowah!!!

Appreciate your sharing this with us.

Frankly there are amazing people out there, in this beautiful world we live in.

she is doing greatbut i saw some people doing it before so never seen before isnt the good thing here , but she do a great thing anyway

it's not my anniversary of emergence from the birth canal for another 3 days, but tonight Cerys gave me a lovely cake and card, the lovely Lyna returned, and Dr Mike. All I want now is some nice non vintage Krug.

: )

Iain, let me be the first to send birthday wishes for (presumably) 1 September. And as for vintage Krug, I'm more a Bollinger man - but what the Hell, to each his own :-)

amazing stuff...thanks for that!!

Amazing I've never seen this. I wish I could understand the lyrics. Thanks for sharing.