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Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931 at The Ukrainian Museum thru May 2, 2012
Posted by Ukie on August 30, 2000 at 12:23:59:
In Reply to: This message is for Yanko posted by Lena on August 30, 2000 at 10:45:47:
: All we do is through punches in the air. You have a perfact plan how to change Ukraine for the better, but yet I don't see too many changes for the better lately. I tryid to send some help for Ukraine by donating my old furniture and cloth and got involved all my American friends in it. Do you realy want to know what had happen? Packeges got to the Kiev, where half was taking by castom workers and another half(whatever they didn't like) went to second hand store. Not even one person got one peace of cloth for free as a help from overseas. And where is furniture nobody knows.
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It always been this way. My mother-in-law used to work in hospital back in Lviv, Ukraine. They received free medications from abroad like Tylenol etc. Do you think what happened? It was sold on the market and sick people from hospital got nothing. They were told to bring their own medications.
My wife graduated from high school in Lviv during Soviet times. She told me what was the bribe in the 80-s to get into Medical Institute in Lviv. It was 10,000 roubles if you wanted to get into Phisician program and 5,000 for Dentistry (average monthly salary for an engineer was around 160 roubles at that time. ) Actually, some kids from her grade who were "triyochnyky" (averaging "C") got into that medical school (not because of their merits but because their parents were able to pay those bribes. In addition, you have to know whom to pay). So, what do you expect from these "doctors" now. What happened to the kids who deserved to be in that school? Everything was rotten long time ago but now it's unbearable. Whom to blame? Only those who kept their mouthes shut, it means all of us. (Moya hata skrayu, ya nichoho ne znayu). Those few who protested were not enough.