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Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931 at The Ukrainian Museum thru May 2, 2012
Posted by Yanko on August 30, 2000 at 17:36:01:
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.
Sorry to hear I gave you such an impression. This is certainly not what I hoped to convey.
: 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.
That is because my plan is still in preparatory phase. I will keep you posted.
: 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?
I'm not at all surprised. Things like that have been reported in the press a thousand times. This clearly shows that this is NOT the way to help Ukraine.
: Everybody is so good at debating on the internet and everybody is ready to fight for the right of there opinion, but what do you realy do to help your country.
This is not a topic for a public discussion at this point, lest what I do be disrupted by interested parties.
: It is so easy for us to discuss the situation over there when we are here, we know what is going to happen next day and they don't.
You are right. Yet parcels are not going to solve this problem.
: Did you go back home lately? Did you see those homeless kids on the streets asking for food, not money.
Yes, I did. But again, any lazarenko is stealing from these kids in a day what you and your friends cannot send them in a year. Homeless kids are a sad problem, yet I see the same problem in America. What I don't see in America (and do see in Ukraine) is hard-working people hardly managing to sustain themselves. This is what needs to be changed. It can only be changed through politics, any amount of parcels and containers is useless here.
Because we look different, we look relaxed.
Maybe you just look fat? :) Sorry, dumb joke.
I know what you mean, though. I would put it this way: "we" think first, and get scared afterwords, while for "them" it is the other way around. Again, to change this pattern we need something fundamentally different from food parcels.