Even Hitler didn't bomb like this...

[pbmus]

Link to tweet

[greenjar_01]

1. Hmmmm...no

Just no.

[Igel]

5. I actually don't have a clue how har Kharkov/Kharkiv was hit

during WWII, whether when it was captured by the Germans or by the Red Army.

[leftstreet]

2. Good grief

there are no words

[samnsara]

3. putins own version of counting coup

..hes a coward

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Do...do you know what counting coup is?

[Deuxcents]

4. Watching 20 some days of cruelty

Kidnapping, bombing newborns and turning a great peoples country to ruin. We are watching a madman do his worst to humanity.. I’m heartbroken

[BlueLucy]

11. Me too. I had a full blown panic attack earlier today.

Something has to be done. I don't know what but something more.

[left-of-center2012]

6. Didn't Hitler flatten Polish cities?

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Yes, and he did a number on London killing about 50,000 people.

He actually flattened Warsaw twice. The first was 1939 at the start of the war, and the second was 1945 just before the Russians took it from him. Stalin actually had his troops delay taking Warsaw because he wanted Hitler to destroy it.

[ColinC]

14. This has been a question of mine that I haven't gotten around to googling

50,000 deaths in the London bombing seems far worse than what has happened in Ukraine so far. It gives me hope that Ukraine can come out on top -si.ilar to the UK (of course the UK didn't have actual griundforces entering their country, I think)

[JanMichael]

7. Dresden

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

Not Hitler but...

[localroger]

10. Hitler didn't have the capability

He was also focusing what air bombardment power he had in the day on other enemies which were more of an immediate threat.

[dalton99a]

12. Ukraine has every right to reduce Moscow to rubble

It's a shame it doesn't have such capability

[lees1975]

13. Kharkiv was taken by the Germans during their 1941 invasion

and was the scene of several major battles during the war. Kharkiv was actually the last Nazi victory and was retaken in 1943 after being liberated, though soon after, the Soviet army came back through and liberated the city again. The city itself was bombed, shelled with artillery, including heavy guns and the majority of it was destroyed. In executing a scorched earth policy as they retreated, most of what was left in Kharkiv was set on fire by retreating Germans.

But what is happening to it now is just as tragic, and just as unnecessary. Large sections of it have been destroyed. It seems like the biggest targets in Ukraine are Russian speaking areas.