Monday 20 December 2010

I'll never understand human behaviour in the situation when dictatorship is crossing around the country, arresting the main opponents, and others are just looking at this in the silence and are thinking "it's not mine business". Then I can say "no", it's everyone's business, because any authoritative regime near to dictatorship is dangerous for liberty and free rights of anybody. The position of closed eyes and ears and sitting silently is absolutely wrong people's position. Because at first every authoritative leader-dictator destroys his opponents, the leaders of the opposition to him, and then he makes controled men by him from others citizens of the state. I have already read many biographies of the dictators such as Stalin and Hitler etc. And may tell You that they took the power in their hands in such way - in the way of destruction of their main opposition. But who is a dictator? He's also a man as all people on the Earth, but he becomes a dictator when others keep silent and are afraid to do or to say or even to think something against him. And then he feels like a God that can do anything! It doesn't depend where dictator lives because the common feature of such authoritative men is a wish to rule whole world. That's why nobody in the world may say "it's not mine business" on the 100%.
And it's a very pity that Ukraine borders on the states of two much authoritative regimes in Russia and Belarus. But, of course, now Ukrainian state's regime isn't democratic too. I'm really wonder what will be the future of the nations in these countries. Nowadays the charge of the modern Ukrainian power in the law's breach of Yuliya Tymoshenko, the principal oppositional leader in Ukraine, and the prohibition of her movement abroad is a serious trial for her personally, and for Ukrainian society. It's sorrowful reality when others Ukrainian so-called oppositional leaders from another so-called democratic parties keep silent in this situation. Probably they think "it's not my business". Or even some of them thinks that after Tymoshenko's imprisonment the post of main oppositioner will be vacant and that someone will become a new leader of opposition. No way! Why? Because when this so-called leaders are afraid and silent now, then they'll be just hand screws in the machine of the authoritative power. The positive side of all is an understanding of simple people in Ukraine that it's not a question of sympathy or antipathy to Y. Tymoshenko, but it's a question of the beginning of the mass repressions and dictatorship or not beginning.

Sunday 19 December 2010

Today is the Saint Nicholas' Day in Ukraine - probably the most joyful and fairy holiday after Christmas. Because in the night of December 19th good Saint Nicholas secretly visites all people and gives nice gifts when someone was courteous last year or gives tree's branches, called "rizky" in Ukrainian when somebody was not very courteous. :)
Well, in the IV-th century good priest and then bishop Nicholas indeed brought secret gifts poor people and children, giving out his father's inheritance. And I believe that nowadays he is looking at the deals of his human helpers in the Day of St. Nicholas. Because men just help him to do his wonderful work - to create a tale for everyone.
I remember my childhood and awaking in the morning to see the gifts or "rizky". My St. Nicholas always put me all together. :) But once it was some deficit of rizky in Lviv's shops and good saint gave me only gifts! "Yeah, I was courteous the last year!", such I thought then. But unfortunately I was late for the lesson in the school and what do You think? Yes, I get my rizky in the school. )))
I'm also St. Nicholas' helper now and think about surprises for my small cousins. In general people do that fairy tale in the different ways. Somebody puts the presents near the pillow or in all flat's rooms (because then child will search for presents everywhere). Someone pleases some relative or fellow to be St. Nicholas for their children, dressing the special clothes of saint (few like a priest) and visiting them in the late evening of the 18th or in the early morning of the 19th of December to give the gifts buyed by that "someone" before. Another pleases relative or friend only to ring in the flat's door and to leave presents under the door and quickly go away till children don't see "St. Nicholas".
But that fine holiday is also for the adults, because anybody wants to believe in the tale. And if someone wants to create this tale, for example, for You, let him/her do it. And then maybe You'll want to create something amazing too. Secretly, of course. As real Saint Nicholas. ;)

Saturday 11 December 2010

Yesterday I saw wonderful Italian film "Big dream" on the festival "Week of the Italian cinema" in Lviv. It was film created by Mikele Placido, a famous actor in Ukraine with his role of the policeman Corrado Cattani. So, big dream of the main film's heroes was the revolution as unique way to better changes in their native Italy. The film tells about student's revolution of 1968, organized because of difference in the youth's rights to get education. Dramatic, but nice film, that tells about liberty as the principal people's need. That also tells about trust as the base of human relations. I think it's very actual film about revolitionary activity for present Ukraine.
And You know, I'm for freedom and against any dictatorship. Because every dictator isn't a leader, but the person with many complexes. And all that complexes are hidden in the view of the dictator's power, made with repressions, human deathes, policy of transformation free people into afraid slaves. So any dictator can't be a real leader in the world in the sense of the best changes for our Earth. Only man who respects liberty of anothers and who has people's trust may do something fine.
"Svobodu ne spynyty!"
"Can't stop a freedom!"

Sunday 7 November 2010

So, it's over now, I mean the Ukrainian democracy. The local elections were held last Sunday on October 31-th in Ukraine. And that elections looked like a farce and were organized very badly. People didn't have a choice...You know, I came to vote for prefered party and couldn't do it at first in my life. Because I wanted to choose Batkivshchyna party and there was no this party in the bulletin. At that time I felt myself a slave, but not a citizen of democratic country. So I just wrote on my bulletins the next words in Ukrainian: "Я за чесні вибори!" ("I'm for fair elections!"), put that bulletins in the elective box and went home.
The conclusion is the power of the country, elected in such way and with much falsifications, can't be considered as legal power anywhere.

Friday 24 September 2010

I want to tell about one sad page from the history of Ukraine. This thread is about the first Ukrainian and the second European museum-prison, about "National museum-memorial of the occupational regimes' victims "The Prison on Lontskyy str." in L'viv. The prison on Lontskyy str. was famous as political prison during three occupations of L'viv region: the Polish in 1919-1939, the Soviet in 1939-1941 and in 1944-1991, the Nazi in 1941-1944. The cruelest pages of this prison are dated in 1941 year, when during 22-28 on June were shot 1681 prisoners by the agents of NKVD. And also very cruel events were in 1941-1944, when the Nazi have begun to arrest the members of OUN and their relatives there. In 1936 the Ukrainian hero Stepan Bandera, a leader of OUN, stayed in the prison on Lontskyy str. after his arrest of 1934. Katheryna Zarytska, the organizer and the chief of Ukrainian Red Cross of UPA, stayed here too from 1935 till 1941. Ivan Klymiv, one of the chieves of OUN in West Ukraine in 1940-1941 and a minister in the Ukrainian government of Yaroslav Stestko, was shot on December, 4 in 1942. Yuriy Shukhevych, the member of OUN and a brother of Roman Shukhevych, the leader of UPA, was shot on June of 1941. Iryna Senyk, Ihor and Iryna Kalynets, Ivan Hel', the famous public figures in the period of the second soviet occupation (1944-1991), were arrested and stayed here for "antisoviet activity". And V'yacheslav Chornovil, the eminent public figure and politician, candidate for president of Ukraine in 1991 and in 1999, stayed in the prison in 1972-1973 for "antisoviet activity" too. (Many people considered him the best pro-Ukrainian candidate in that elections; V. Chornovil died in the autocatastrophe in 1999 under the strange circumstances).
After staying in the jail on Lontskyy str. the prisoners were shot or were sent to the camps for political prisoners. The last arrests for "antisoviet propaganda" were organized in 1989, when the citizens of L'viv went on patriotic demonstration and then some of them were taken here. Nowadays it's only memorable museum, not a prison. The museum was created to know and to remember the real Ukrainian history of that cruel XX-th century. Because who doesn't know the past, that one isn't worth for the future.

Thursday 9 September 2010

Shock. I'm shocking with the last events in Ukraine. I'm shocking with that high price for gas and with growing of the pensioner's age, proposed by the Ukrainian authority, with foolish reforms in the educational branch and with rewritting Ukrainian history in the textbooks, with taking of the frequencies of two independent from the modern authority channels ("the 5-th" and TVI) and with blocking of the participation of the party "Batkivshchyna" in Lviv and Kyiv regions in the elections on October, 31. Just great shock...
How can the Ukrainian men be the pensioners only after their 65 years old when the average life's duration of men is 63 years in Ukraine?
Why can't Ukrainian children have the right to know about the UPA (Ukrainian Revolting Army) and the Ukrainian Sichovi Striltsi, about the young heros of the fighting near the city of Kruty and the Orange revolution of 2004-th?
How can people pay for gas according new price when many of them are unemployed and the state's authority does NOTHING to change this situation? But also why should the Ukrainians pay for Russian gas for such high price when Russia pays for the transit of its gas on the Ukrainian territory for very low price? Then, the agreement about the staying of the Russian navy in the Crimea till 2042 was written providing low price for Russian gas. So? What was it? The empty promises?...
And, You know, I can't believe that the future elections will be without Tymoshenko's party "Batkivshchyna" in Lviv and Kyiv regions, in these two regions, which support the oppositional leader, probably, the most. The reason is the refusal of the ministry of the justice to register the new chieves of Lviv and Kyiv organizations of "Batkivshchyna", elected this summer. And the official election's company will start on September, 11...So that organizations have only 2 days to be registered...
(P.S. Why are the new chieves there? Because the former chieves united to the coalition with power's party).

I'm in the sorrowful spirits from this reality in Ukraine.

Tuesday 24 August 2010

The Independence Day of Ukraine on August, 24-th is real holiday for many-many people in Ukraine and abroad. This year the 19-th anniversary of the Ukrainian Independence is celebrating too modestly, like "in the economical variant" - without traditional military parade and big concerts. :) But anyway the citizens of Ukraine are happy to live in their own independent state and the majority of them don't want back in the USSR. Probably, only modern state's power certainly wants to return us there. But, no, I don't want to write some sorrowful thread today. Yes, Ukraine has much problems and not accepted decisions, and we must live in the reality without "closing eyes" on the Ukrainian events, we must change that reality, if it isn't liked for us. I hope we'll do better changes step by step.
And today is the Ukraine's birthday. Ukraine is only 19 years old - like nice young lady. Though it's only its official age - the real age of this lady is bigger, much bigger. :) But she doesn't tell anybody what is her age indeed, because she's a lady. She's trying to be sage always, but sometimes she makes mistakes because of her youth (official :)). Of course, as young person, she has many ideas and plans for amazing future, but doesn't have the experience of the transformation that ideas in the reality in the past. I wish this lady a great healthy to cross quickly all problems, a success to find good friends in that cruel life, a sagacity to see who is a friend and who isn't and a sagacity to declarate right laws for people, and a pride of who she is - the Ukrainian!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdH1d1UMKPE

National Anthem of Ukraine. )))

Wednesday 11 August 2010

I can't view my profile in the blog because of error "bX-ypcj3". Can anybody say me what is it and how may change it? Thanks for answers.
But...what a morning. This night I dreamed Lenin's portrait and my living in the Soviet Union, just as back in the USSR. I'm scare! :) Such bad dream, one of the worst in my life. Maybe I should read less political news. )))
Have a nice Wednesday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYvuS9OxdA&feature=av2n

Sunday 18 July 2010

Drohobych

The oldest wooden temple in Ukraine, built in 1657 - St. Yuriy Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

                      St. Yuriy icon in St. Yuriy Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

                 Wonderful iconostasis of St. Yuriy Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

                    The interior of St. Yuriy Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Former NKVS prison in 1941 and memorable table about that period on the building, nowadays it's one of the scientific-researching institutes of Drohobych Pedagogical University.

                   Basilian monastery's complex of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Monument to famous scientist Yuriy Drohobych (Kotermak), which some time was a rector in Bologne university on the beginning of the XVth century.

   Monument to Ukrainian famous writer Ivan Franko, who lived11 years in Drohobych.

          Memorable table to Ivan Franko on the facade of the gimnasium, where he studied.

Monument to Vyacheslav Chornovil, famous Ukrainian politician and Ukraine's patriot in 1960-1990 years.

Monument to eminent Ukrainian writer and public figure Markiyan Shashkevych.

Monument to the fighters for Ukraine's freedom.

Monument to all victims of Holodomor (huge famine, created by Soviet state power) in 1932-1933.

A belfry of St. Bartolomeo Catholic Cathedral of Drohobych, built in the XIVth century.

                                                   Entry to St. Bartolomeo Catholic Cathedral


Monument to Pope John Paul II near St. Bartolomeo Catholic Cathedral.

Memorable table to Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest Vasyl Shevchuk, killed in 1943 in Ryashiv (nowaday Polish city Rzeszow).

Big poster to Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian politician and the chief of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Drohobych Pedagogical University.

St. Trinity Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Architectural examples of the XIXth century.

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (wooden temple)

Antique painting on the facade of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Drohobych Painting Gallery

Drohobych Art Palace

The interior of the Museum of Bruno Schulz, famous painter, who was born in Drohobych and was killed here by the Nazi in 1942.

                                 Salterns plant's buildings, constructed in the XVIIth century.

                                       Monument to dead soldiers in the War of 1941-1945.

Drohobych People's House

Drohobych City Council's tower and Ukrainian flag on the top.

Drohobych in Lviv region. I like to go there when I want to "escape" and to think well about life, systematizing my thoughts. Don't know why, but exactly this city gives me a kind force of the positive mood in the future. And it's also strange for my character - to travel into the same place several times, because I usually go in the different cities and don't enjoy come back again and again to one place, besides my native Lviv, of course. But Drohobych is special. :)

Monday 21 June 2010

Wake up, Ukraine! :)

I think these words every day in the morning, dreaming about the better future in my state. And some better changes have already happened - the Ukrainian society woke up from its sleeping. Good signals of this awaking are the public protests of different public organizations against the new project of "Law about peace actions and meetings", organized last week in Kyiv, Lviv, Donetsk, Cherkasy, Kharkiv (p. s. this project of law decreases much the possibilities of the meeting's organization). And nowadays the Ukrainian citizens very actively discuss and protest against the new Tax Codex, which maybe will be accept with the Parliament. This tax codex will almost completely destroy the businesses in Ukraine because of its high taxes or because of its "free" tax controls and then an unemployment will grow more and more... So it's not time "to sleep".

The song of "Mandry" - "Don't sleep, my native land, wake up, my Ukraine".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkzxVS9VyE

Friday 11 June 2010

Oleksandr Zinchenko.

The great politician, chief and creator one of the first ukrainian TV-channel in the 1990-th years, journalist and just the great ukrainian was buried today in Kyiv, on the Baykove cemetery. He died in the age of 53 on 9 June, 2010 at the hospital, because was ill with a blood cancer last 10 years. But he was always the fighter in everything, even in his illness, because the doctors said him about one year of the life with such diagnose, but he lived whole ten years, fighting with the cancer! The real fighter and the main ideologist of the Orange revolution in Ukraine in 2004. The man of the principles, who wasn't afraid of saying the truth and the objective information in the politics. The man with nice smile, big optimism and many ideas in the different branches.
I cried from this information of Zinchenko's death.
It's a really pity, when die someone, who does anything good for another people, not only for him, or when die someone, who has the real human values, but not money as the principal value. And mr. Oleksandr was such one, but... has already gone in the better world.