Posted by Yaro on April 06, 2000 at 17:25:53:
In Reply to: opjat' 25 posted by rabotiaga on April 05, 2000 at 20:23:58:
After reading all these messages posted by "rabotiaga" anyone can understand why it is so hard for Ukraine to move ahead. Because of the people like him. They don't respect other languages, cultures, traditions, etc. They simply mock others. Look at their anecdotes: they ridicule people of different nationalities but not themselves. They never understood such things as democracy, that's why their believe is in good czars. They take pride of themselves how powerful they are, how many tanks they have, but never tell you that they always barely feed their own people. Their dream is to live in the big cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg because there is some supply of eatery there bought by the government from abroad after selling crude oil. Hundreds of thousands of these people were leaving poor Russian villages for centuries and moved to Ukraine in search of food and better life. They didn't have much to do in their poor villages, but eating shchi (primitive cabbage soup) and drinking cheap vodka made by themselves. Now these former shchi eaters and their descendants tell you how high developed they are. Ha-ha-ha! Give me a brake!
P.S. I know nothing about Putin but heard on TV recently that he is a son (or grandson) of Stalin's cook.