Posted by Yanko on July 23, 2002 at 14:50:22:
In Reply to: Re: SEPARATIST SENTIMENT GROW IN WESTERN UKRAINE posted by Carpatho-Rus on July 23, 2002 at 12:09:41:
: :::Not at all. It is sufficient to provide tourists, visitors with good professional services, not to rip them off, have clean streets, clean non-Turkish toilettes, good food, accommodation in clean hotels for reasonable price, information available not only in azbuka (including names of towns, streets etc.), have functional bankomats available in major towns and so on.
Thank you so much for providing me with this critical information. I wish you were the mayor of Uzhhorod to implement all this -- but you are so far away, unfortunately. As far as I'm concerned, I'm in a different business and in no need of diversification at this point. So, who's gonna do all this?
: If all these work, tourists will know that they are not in East Europe. Otherwise no sign can help and your" intelligent" suggestion can be only a joke.
Oh, thank you again for warning me. I was already gonna order the signs for the city of Uzhhorod.
:Of course, this word with its negative meaning is confined to certain part of Europe and has nothing in common with those cultures that have been developed for instance in Singapore or Hong Kong.
Of course, I could not doubt your "political correctness". But then again, you should probably think of different pejoratives -- what if someone understands "oriental" in the Hong Kong sense? You could be suspected of complimenting Ukraine.
: ::: I pointed out the long tradition for self-government in Subcarpathia.
Oh my, I thought it was foreign and mostly despotic rule -- now it turns out to be self-government. To live -- to learn.
: :::If you consider it insufficient for your brain than read the last issue of Staryj Zamok.
I don't read Staryj Zamok, or any Ukrainian newspaper for that matter, simply because there is no free press in Ukraine. Oleh Liashko -- the man who tries to publish the independent "Svoboda" newspaper -- is constantly harassed, but I don't see the journalists of other newspapers protesting against this. Hence my attitude to them.
: ::: First of all, your concern is irrelevant. Even if it is half as bad as Mr.NET it can keep for a long time Ukraine on periphery of Europe behind Albania.
I don't care if Europe stays on periphery of Ukraine. Europe or any other Africa is important only inasmuch as it can be beneficial to Ukrainian national interests.
I haven't been to Albania, but from what I saw on TV, it is far behind Transcarpathia economically.
: ::: One does not need an exhaustive research in a country where assassinations of reporters are tolerated.
I'm pretty sure you don't need research for anything, cuz you don't answer for your words anyway. You migh just as well put 250 years instead of 25.
: Those times gone when talking and talking of Ukranian diplomats were sufficient for the West in providing help.
Yup, no more Clinton administration to support Kuchma -- and there we are, Ukraine finally has a chance at democratisation. What a coincidence!
: In addition, Russia's influence will increase more and more in this region of Europe.
Yeah, Great Russia, the superpower almost as rich as the Czech Republic.
: The ten years of Ukrainian opportunity when Russia was very weak has gone as well.
Yeah, that is why all the forces that were officially supported by Moscow lost the elections. Ukrainian opportunities are only starting to emerge.
: ::: In addition, if Vodicka's assay reflects only in 50% of reality about Ukrainian mentality than you never had an opportunity.
Vodichka's essay can hardly reflect anything but his Moskal soul. I don't read anything in Russian, because information-to-lies ratio is normally so low, it's simply a waste of time.
: :::The next is your personal contribution in development of "SPECIFIC UKRAINIAN" democracy that will be a model for democracy all around the world.
So you are telling me to go and build democracy? Thank you so much! I was just waiting for your approval to start.
: ::: Furthermore, keep working on deforestation of Carpathian Mountains so that you will have sufficient rocks to make memorials for great intolerant Ukrainians who emerged from Rusyns.
Yeah, and your statue will probably be addded to Rushmore to commemorate the American who made the wittiest joke about deforestation.
: :::This statement of yours I've addressed earlier.
Addressed how? You simply said Moskal has solved this problem, but that is not true. The problem is there, I talked to that problem recently and it appeared to me pretty certain of staying unpunished.
: I hope that the governor Moskalj will also act when individuals from his camp break the rules.
Yeah, I'm sure he will. There is only one way to do nothing, and Moskal certainly knows it.