- Sep 2019
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- Marietta GA USA - Russia
Eastern European opposition to Soviet rule during the Cold War
Eastern Europe...
Among other things, East European opposition to Soviet rule during the Cold War proves that they were not happy then.
I noticed that the Eastern Europeans were never happy, even now, once in the European Union, they criticize this Union most harshly (although they receive subsidies from it).
If you look in more detail, then the peoples of Eastern Europe have always and without interruption criticized any attempts to somehow integrate them into larger spaces:
first, the object of this criticism was three conservative empires (German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian),
then “two totalitarian regimes” (Third German Reich and the USSR),
then the "Soviet occupation",
now here is the "dominance of the European bureaucrats."
This constant criticism only means that in a substantial respect any East European claims can be safely ignored as white noise.
The very same Czechs and Poles secretly and openly dream that they themselves will become a large empire and will integrate someone else into the space of their own.
And with nostalgia recall those times when they had attempts to do so.
One of the most touching and unchanging news genres from Eastern Europe is reports that in some country, after a difficult struggle, a new government of young technocrats with a Western education finally came to power, and now people will live there, now everything is there will get better.
Here, for example, such news from Macedonia. The new prime minister is 35 years old, a financier, studied in London. Foreign Minister - 29 years old, graduated from Bonn University, fluent in English and German. Home Secretary - Female, 30, University of Kent in Britain.
Representatives of civil society, the heads of non commercial organizations, got to high posts (such as the Minister of Defense). The new Minister of European Integration is a lady from the Macedonian branch of Transparency International.
A US citizen (ethnic Macedonian) will become a special minister for attracting foreign investment. And the Minister of Information is the person who worked in the USA at Microsoft.
Is it possible to imagine greater happiness? With such a fabulous government, they will live better in this Macedonia, than in Singapore.
One trouble is, the news from 2006. This is the government of the very same Gruevsky, whom everyone now curses in Macedonia and the West. It’s against him that people have been protesting for almost two years in Skopje. This government of his was drowned in theft and corruption, in the persecution of the opposition, rigged elections and the destruction of independent media.
***
The rabbi died and appeared before God.
- Where you were born? Lord asked him.
“In Austria-Hungary,” the rabbi answered.
- And where did you go to the header (school)?
- In Czechoslovakia.
- And where did you get married?
- In Hungary.
“And where was your firstborn born?”
- In the Third Reich.
- And where were your grandchildren born?
- IN THE USSR.
- Where did you die?
- In Ukraine.
- My good rabbi - God said - you had to travel a lot in life ...
“Not at all,” the rabbi answered. - I have not left Mukachevo, western Ukraine, all my life.
Eastern Europe...
Among other things, East European opposition to Soviet rule during the Cold War proves that they were not happy then.
I noticed that the Eastern Europeans were never happy, even now, once in the European Union, they criticize this Union most harshly (although they receive subsidies from it).
If you look in more detail, then the peoples of Eastern Europe have always and without interruption criticized any attempts to somehow integrate them into larger spaces:
first, the object of this criticism was three conservative empires (German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian),
then “two totalitarian regimes” (Third German Reich and the USSR),
then the "Soviet occupation",
now here is the "dominance of the European bureaucrats."
This constant criticism only means that in a substantial respect any East European claims can be safely ignored as white noise.
The very same Czechs and Poles secretly and openly dream that they themselves will become a large empire and will integrate someone else into the space of their own.
And with nostalgia recall those times when they had attempts to do so.
One of the most touching and unchanging news genres from Eastern Europe is reports that in some country, after a difficult struggle, a new government of young technocrats with a Western education finally came to power, and now people will live there, now everything is there will get better.
Here, for example, such news from Macedonia. The new prime minister is 35 years old, a financier, studied in London. Foreign Minister - 29 years old, graduated from Bonn University, fluent in English and German. Home Secretary - Female, 30, University of Kent in Britain.
Representatives of civil society, the heads of non commercial organizations, got to high posts (such as the Minister of Defense). The new Minister of European Integration is a lady from the Macedonian branch of Transparency International.
A US citizen (ethnic Macedonian) will become a special minister for attracting foreign investment. And the Minister of Information is the person who worked in the USA at Microsoft.
Is it possible to imagine greater happiness? With such a fabulous government, they will live better in this Macedonia, than in Singapore.
One trouble is, the news from 2006. This is the government of the very same Gruevsky, whom everyone now curses in Macedonia and the West. It’s against him that people have been protesting for almost two years in Skopje. This government of his was drowned in theft and corruption, in the persecution of the opposition, rigged elections and the destruction of independent media.
***
The rabbi died and appeared before God.
- Where you were born? Lord asked him.
“In Austria-Hungary,” the rabbi answered.
- And where did you go to the header (school)?
- In Czechoslovakia.
- And where did you get married?
- In Hungary.
“And where was your firstborn born?”
- In the Third Reich.
- And where were your grandchildren born?
- IN THE USSR.
- Where did you die?
- In Ukraine.
- My good rabbi - God said - you had to travel a lot in life ...
“Not at all,” the rabbi answered. - I have not left Mukachevo, western Ukraine, all my life.