Posted by JW on January 19, 2004 at 08:43:46:
Hanya Krill has written two articles over the past 2/3 days. One relating to the situation of Kuchma and the other related to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the corresponding implications as they relate to Ukraine's plight in the wake of its 10-year old freedom.
Both articles are very well written and I appreciate the writer’s position. However, if one thinks about those articles in a more deep sense, one can begin to see the close relationship that they share with each other.
Forgetting about the incredible amount of BS that the Soviet Union government served up to its people for decades, just beginning from the point of Ukraine's freedom. The reality here is that there was no freedom of the people given at all. My friends and family inside Ukraine are in fact worse off today than they were within the USSR. The ONLY freedom that was issued was for the crooks and thieves. And unfortunately, all of them reside within the Ukrainian political system.
When the analyst spoke of Ukraine experiencing decades of problems that was a very correct statement. Why, simple really when you think about it and my wife's mother is a very good example for this. She has lived all but 10 years under a Communist ruled government. She hates the new Ukraine, her life was better before and to think that she will take the energy to stand up and fight against current government for a better way of life...it's not going to happen.
Change will come through attrition. The new generations of Ukrainian’s must make the change just as those did all those years after Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke those immortal words. Being free comes at a very high price and being free to do as you wish still doesn’t take away the repression of a government that only cares about its on well being. Kuchma cares nothing for the Ukrainian people, and whether he is dead or not, I know the feeling within our home was one of silent sadness when it was later thought that he might actually be alive and let God forgive me for having such thoughts. We do everything we can possibly do for our family that remains in Ukraine and we hate what the government continues to do and we hope beyond hope that something good will come to all those who continue to have to live with the “new” Ukraine.
Thank you for reading and Hanya, never stop writing the right things!