UC Berkeley blog press release: rebecca goberto 2022-03-22 I read with anguish the Russian bombing of Babi Yar (Babyn Yar). It turns out that it provides context for this act and what makes it so disturbing in the general scandal of the war in Ukraine. Babi Yar is the ultimate symbolic site of the Holocaust in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union; it gives an account of the main way in which the Germans and their allies massacred Jews on Soviet and Ukrainian soil, what the priest and Patrick Desbois called “the Holocaust through bullets. “ In the autumn of...