The Ukrainian nation is at risk of being wiped out. Eliminationist campaigns usually succeed, and Vladimir Putin has said that the country should not exist. The current war against Ukraine began in 2014, and the West did not pay much mind to it. This time, with total destruction of the country possible, everyone involved, in front of and behind the camera want you to know what's going on.

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Daniel Goldhagen's book, "Worse Than War" is a survey of eliminationist campaigns in history, and describes why they start, the mechanisms, how they end, and that the world usually turns a blind eye, and usually the bad guy wins.
Sometimes the good guys win. Bill Clinton decided to come to the rescue in Bosnia, and he was aware that murder and rape was going on for years, and wishes he had acted sooner.  

History will judge the US by what it does now. 

The book is available on amazon.com.

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To understand the peril Ukraine is in, read "Worse Than War". A survey of eliminationist campaigns in history. Why they start, the mechanisms (murder, rape, deportation), how they end. The world usually watches and the bad guy wins. Bill Clinton came to the rescue in Bosnia. He says he wishes he acted sooner. History will judge the US and the West by what it does now to help Ukraine fight. The book is available on amazon.com.

Eliminationism (aka Genocide).

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Carol of the Bells, written by Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych [Микола Дмитрович Леонтович]

Christmas in Ukraine During War

At the border in Shegini, Ukraine. These women and the man walk 500 meters to Medyca, Poland. Volunteer helping across the border

Crossing the Border out of Ukraine

The Territorial Defense Forces (aka Territorial Guard) [Війська територіальної оборони] about 137,000 men and women who most often provide protection to the areas in which they live, protecting roads, checkpoints.

Territorial Guard

A soldier is brought to The Garrison Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Lviv for his funeral. His family, friends and comrades in arms attending. The hearse arrives almost daily since the full scale invasion began on February 24, 2022.

A Soldier’s Funeral

Life continues. The circle of life continues.

Birth During War

Christmas Eve.  Ambulance on duty meters from the zero line.  During a lull, two soldiers of the 24th Brigade medical company partake in the traditional Ukrainian Christmas meal, the twelve dishes.  Outside two soldiers stand guard in the darkness.

Christmas in Ambulance in Bakhmut

A priest chants the names of captured and wounded soldiers during Mass. They are written on pieces of paper by loved ones then collected and brought to the alter. Known as intentions, the community is united in peacetime and in the fight.

Praying for Soldiers Wounded and Captured

A wife faces the death of her husband. She had brought him to the army's medical unit, hopeful he could be saved.

A Wife Says Goodbye to Her Husband

Medyca, Poland. A queue of vehicles about 12km (7 mile)  waits to cross the border from Poland into Ukraine.  Depending on border control procedures, it sometimes takes days to get to the other side.

Trucks

A couple is wed in a traditional Ukrainian church wedding.

Traditional Ukrainian Wedding During War

A wall in a popular restaurant and bar in Lviv.  Flags and signs of solidarity are everywhere in Ukraine, on streets, in restaurants, in people's homes and vehicles.

Signs of Freedom

Ruslan, a soldier on leave with his girlfriend Vika who has been waiting.

Ruslan and Vika

A company of tanks hide in the treeline in Bakhmut.
Much of Donetsk Oblast are hectors of pancake flat farmland. Tanks and soldiers often find shelter in scant treelines.

Tank Hiding In The Trees

A wall in a popular restaurant and bar in Lviv. All over Ukraine are signs of commonality with the United States and the West. Ukrainians have chosen the West over the East.  Their culture, their heritage. They see themselves as part of the West, proud of their Ukrainian ethnicity, traditions and identity. The fight is against Russia wiping all of it out. Putin has said that Ukraine should not exist. They are in the fight their own lives and the life of the country.

Ukrainian Gothic

Winter socks, Medical supplies for front line

24th Mechanized Infantry Brigade

Animal Rescue Squad

Medical, mental health, and social services

Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin

Food and vehicles for those on the front line

Civilization of Europe  Foundation

Saint Nicholas Hospital

One Heart

Prosthetics and care for injured warriors & civilians

Unbroken

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Life During War. Witness births, a wedding, combat, grieving, Christmas, everything. Real men, women, children. A masterpiece.

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SYNOPSISWar focuses the mind on the essence of life. Family, friends, food, heritage, what you’ll fight for, what you might die to keep. The choices one makes each morning when the sun rises.&nbsp;To The Zero Line&nbsp;takes place during a time of war, during the full scale invasion of a European country, Ukraine.&nbsp;At stake are the hospitals, churches, music, art, children, pregnant women, expectant fathers, against a force determined to murder all of it. Genocide.&nbsp;You experience the perpetual cycle of life of the invaded, the birth of two children, a wedding, death, the loss of a loved one, Soldiers in battle on the zero line, and back in the cities, towns and villages each person has his or her own personal zero line.&nbsp;You experience people from outside the country flooding in to help in what ways they can. Each adding a small part to a big puzzle.&nbsp;&nbsp;You might ask yourself. How am I so different? What would I do if death comes knocking on my door or my parents’ door or my school door or my church’s door. The film is an opportunity to think for yourself.&nbsp;Everybody in life is going to the Zero Line. The point of contact with your worst fears. Where the enemy is. Horrible hours, and brutal seconds. Where you need true friends and your best moments.&nbsp; MORE ON THE PROJECTA note from Ben Goldhagen,&nbsp;director of To The Zero Line.Act INobody in this great world of ours rose up to rescue my father’s family, except for one man, and that man, Traian Popovichi, saved my father and saved my father’s mother and my father’s father from murder. But for that one man, that one brave man, my father would not be alive today, and I would not be alive today, and this film would not have been made.During the Holocaust, Traian Popovichi was the mayor of Chernovtiz, a small city that sits on the Prut River, and today they call that city Chernivtsi, Ukraine. The mayor back then was ordered to deport all the Jews. Sadly, many were, yet he schemed a way to save 10,000 of them.Decades later, my brother Daniel and I talked about it on the third day of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukrainian territory. Who, would anybody, righteously stand up for the people of Ukraine now, in their moment of need.Act IIRussia’s Plan A, a blitzkrieg to decapitate the Kyiv government was failing.&nbsp;It was apparent to my brother, who’s known around the world for studying and writing on what he calls eliminationist campaigns, what some call genocide, that Russia was pulling out Plan B. Would I be watching what he thought would be a prolonged war of the same purpose, to wipe out Ukraine, its people, culture, church, language, everything Ukraine out of existence?I was alarmed by Western politicians meagerly provisioning implements of war which people in Ukraine needed desperately to fight off the coming onslaught. My brother has documented that in these kinds of situations when the world shows insufficient interest, the bad guy will win and usually does.I decided to raise my hand. Though I had never directed a feature film before, I set out to make one and that people would listen. I had worked in tv and made short films, but nothing this ambitious, and I had never been in a war zone. Yet confident in my knowledge of history and the Russian national project about to unfold, and my knowledge of media, I set out for Ukraine to make a film.Act IIII envisioned a film called To The Rescue, that was going to focus on people coming from outside to assist Ukraine, since nobody, but that man mentioned above came to rescue my father and his family.Before I crossed the ocean from the United States to Ukraine, someone said to me from inside, you know, it’s not just people outside coming to the rescue. There are people here, Ukrainians are helping each other in every way possible.&nbsp;When I got to Lviv, I encountered a beehive of activity. Everyone contributing their part to a common cause. As a fan of the resultant film put it, “this is how a country goes to war”.The act of making it soon transcended filmmaking.&nbsp;People in cities, towns and villages, politicians, soldiers, priests, people from all walks of life came forward to get involved in front of and behind the camera. The word spread that we were telling their real story from the inside, so people on the outside could come face to face and heart to heart with the people and the culture, what they hold dear and understand the genocidal peril they face.Act IVEveryone I met and know in Ukraine is grateful for the weapons they’ve received. But the stuff they are getting isn’t good enough to win. They need more of it and faster. The war could have been over if they got the right stuff sooner. There are only three American Patriot missile systems in Ukraine now, and they protect the cities, the rest of the country is without. When I went to the 24th Brigade in Bakhmut during the heyday of Wagner, I thought I’d film soldiers with modern UK and USA weapons. Instead, I learned that the country hadn’t received enough UK and USA weapons to provision this brigade, but for a Barrett sniper rifle. The weapons you see in use in the film are pretty much old, some rusty, from the Soviet era and with these the Ukrainian soldier has had to make do. They fight mostly with the same crappy weapons that the Russians have aimed at them. Ukraine has not been sent hardware to hit in quantity and much beyond a few kilometers from the front lines. The US has determined by holding back longer range weapons that this is a meat grinder war. It need not be. The Ukrainian people facing a bear will not surrender to it.A sufficient amount of more modern weapons from the West would tip the balance of battle in Ukraine's favor and end this war and save Ukraine's people and culture. They don’t even need the most modern stuff, just better than what they have and in adequate quantity. The Ukrainians hang on brilliantly due to superior leadership, their historic homegrown innovation with drones, combined arms, and most importantly, the whole country is united in purpose and in spirit. They are on their own land with everything at stake. I am certain if their backs are to the wall, they will not give up, they will fight with bare hands. Act VThe film is available for free streaming worldwide, so everyone outside Ukraine will know what the people inside Ukraine are experiencing, and to honor the many righteous people who are coming to their support against this genocidal national project of the Russian federation.For those with a few extra dollars, there's a donate button that will aid some of the people you become acquainted with in the film. If you want to do more, share a link to this site with three friends.Hopefully, soon, the governments of the West will provide the quantity and the type of tools required for victory. The people of Ukraine know, what Winston Churchill knew, that "Without victory, there is no survival.”And maybe, just maybe, there are moments in this film that will linger with someone somewhere.

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War begins, early responses, early wounded, early treated, early sorrow, spirits high.

Chapter 1: War Redux

Citizens, soldiers, people coming in, people who won't leave...united for victory.

Chapter 2: The Calling

They send vehicles, food, prayers and love to the Zero Line, and mourn when a soldier returns for burial.

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