3/17/22
A MOMENT OF FEELING PROUD OF MY POLISH ANCESTRY : I'M BROUGHT TO TEARS
Although I realize that other countries have taken in Ukrainian refugees, as I watch the videos of the Polish people giving so much of themselves, I'm brought to tears at their kindness and generosity, for the nobility of their personal sacrifice in order to save the lives of others. They did not hesitate because it is only right. Yet no country and very few individuals have unlimited resources.
So many have opened their homes and rolled up their sleeves.
A man who owns a car dealership spent over $100,000 of his personal money to buy a bus and other vehicles that he is using to drive into Ukraine and bring people into Poland. One is fortified to withstand impacts, yet he is risking his life in this action.
These are the kind of people you want in your life. The kind of people you want to know. Even if you never want or need for anything yourself from them.
Not the people who's personal value in life is the value of their real estate. Not those who, upon meeting you, ask you questions intended to figure your net worth. Not the people who can't resist name dropping who they know. Who have lost all humility. Not the snobs who put their noses up in the air. (I sometimes think they must be trying to avoid their own stink.)
Krakow and Warsaw are overwhelmed and more people, more countries must step up. Think about how much populations have shifted due to war. I do hope it will be only temporary but the things these people have experienced already, the fear, the panic, the running, the sounds of bombing, the sirens wailing, the water and food shortages, standing on packed trains for 10 hours, the exhaustion, the desperation, the not knowing where one will end up or how to settle, will be with them.
I want the personal wealth of the oligarchs to be used to rebuild Ukraine.
3/2/22
RUSSIAN OLIGARCHES HIGHTAIL IT ON THEIR SUPERYACHTS - GREAT BRITAIN NUMBER ONE PLACE WHERE BANKS LAUNDER THAT MONEY
A spate of news articles and YouTube videos: One, this morning, said that there was evidence (I suppose surveillance from above) that a number of Russian Oligarches are heading back to Russian on their Super Yachts. I WONDER IF THEY WILL STOP IN MONACO?
I reason that they might not be on the boats at all.
The idea is to get them back to home turf where they cannot be seized.
Watched a video of Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressing the issues, most about Ukraine, some local, and thought it was wonderful that one of the Members of Parliament, brought up that GREAT BRITAIN IS THE NUMBER ONE PLACE THAT CORRUPT RUSSIANS LAUNDER MONEY THROUGH THE BANKS THERE.
Fantastic!
Wish I was familiar with the face and names.
I WAS IMPRESSED WITH HOW TO THE POINT THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT WERE AND HOW RAPID THE PROCEEDINGS. JOHNSON DID NOT BLINK. HE WAS PREPARED OR ABLE TO ADDRESS EACH AND EVERY QUESTION.
Contrast this a bit with watching a full video of President Joseph Biden's State of the Union Address and the members of Congress. Let us say that there is also a protocol such as a number of people called to escort the President to the podium. I was dismayed at the disorder and lack of formality most of these people had prior to the proceedings. WAS THIS A COCKTAIL PARTY? The only people who showed respect - not just for our President - but for the importance of this speech to the United States and the World were the Supreme Court Justices and Military.
Some of these people were on their cell phones.
Could they not conduct personal business out in the hall or afterwards?
As for his speech, it is true that sometimes Biden stumbles on words and we know that he has overcome a speech impediment in the past and this is not about aging. This is a kind of disability but it did not stop him from working hard and achieving.
Those who wish to condemn him on that basis should know that two of our best Presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy were significantly physically disabled which one hid and the other coped with prescription drugs. They were aware that they needed to hide these disabilities. However, for those who are disabled, they show remarkable strength and fortitude.
C 2022 Christine Trzyna
4/12/10
POLAND'S TRAGEDY AND POLISH-AMERICANS (LIKE ME!)
The fact that President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and so very many people important to today's Poland, were on their way to Katyn, a place in the Russian Forest where Polish intellectuals and military officers were dumped in an unmarked grave 70 years ago by Russian soldiers, is especially upsetting. I'm one of those Americans who has ancestors said to be taken away by Russians, never to be seen again. I have been unable to verify or locate these people and I would like the records of the names of those prisoners to be opened.
In one LA Times article I read (in paper) "I just have this feeling that Katyn is a diabolical place in Polish History." Tomasz Lis, journalist and author.
There are so very many links to this story on the Internet. But let me say this. I am linking to the Russian point of view above. So if you are by chance one of my readers from Poland, or Hungary, or Slovakia, please understand the reasons behind this. I'm trying to be fair. I'm trying not to believe that a pilot with experience, with knowledge of his passengers, and warned not to land, would do so anyway. I'm trying not to believe that there was not a terrorist on board, or some character who put a gun to his head.
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