Have We Forgotten? Poem by soren Barrett

Settled by the Rus
Mother of the Russian people
Over run by the mongols
Their own language banned to their own children
Here was the charge of the light brigade
Florence Nightingale nursed the wounded
In the bread basket of the Soviet Union
Stalin's Holodomor
Purposely starved to death 4 million
Invaded by the Nazies
4 million evacuated
1.5 million genocided jews
5 to 7 million victims of war
From famine1 million more
The Chernobyl disaster
And now?