And now you sea* me…

My heart had sunk when I let you go… When it was time for you to build the life of your own…  Not because, I didn’t trust you… I was scared…  If I gave you the right tools to be happy…  VGM 

  Here is the problem with my people - we talk… give us a subject and we will talk nonstop…   Arestovich/Kashpirovsky, do you have another job, besides YouTube?  Zelensky, please... Turn to the people, who already left the country. Those, who adapt to the new circumstances fast are your great assets. Don’t let them reach the point of no return!  It’s time to stop being just the world’s beggar,… … and transform my country into the nation with new economic rules and internal military defense system! …not after the war!  Start today!  VGM  

There are no relationships that don’t need work.... Even most perfect ones need work... And then the perfect relationships bore us too quickly...  I guess we need some level of challenge...  We are so different... We have so many things among us that drive others crazy... And the biggest mistake is trying to change one another...  We don’t change... People don’t change...  We like smart, sophisticated and independent people... people who take great care of themselves... Then , why are we trying to change them to fit our life goals?... Accomplished people always have their own goals and dreams, passions and desires...  How would you two make your goals merge together?...  People of high social and mental status don’t live someone else’s dreams... They don’t domesticate...   Concentrate on love... nothing else matters... VGM, 06/11/20

The language has created a problem in Crimea and Ukraine...   Crimean don’t want to learn Ukrainian…) Pro Ukrainians believe everyone, living in Ukraine must communicate in Ukrainian…  Maybe we should look at Canadian experience of blending in English and French? … VGM

  You could   call me a manipulative b*…), if I only knew my secrets… But…   I follow my intuition, animal’s like, instincts, rudiments, well forgotten by humanity…  VGM

In the 70s and 80s the language in the little towns of central Crimea was… I would call it Ukrussian with a hint of the Tatar’s language blended in… My grandma educated me on the household differences…  There were homes with lots of half-naked kids running around and playing in the dirt, where the oldest kids were taking care of the youngest. The back yards had nothing, but weeds.  Some of the households kept a cow. Those were migrants from Russia, attracted by the warm climate and promise of a house… Ukrainian migrant’s yards were green with happy crops. Kids had daily chores of taking care of the house, livestock, garden, etc. The kids usually played outside in the afternoon once their chores were done. I remember helping my friend with her chores so we could play sooner… Tatars… My grandma had no faith in them. She used to teach me: "Never buy their farm produce when you grow up, because they fertilize crops with human urine"…  I believe the difference between Christian an

People treat you the way they do, not because of who you are, but because of who they are…  So, the question “why” is irrelevant… VGM  

Yesterday, for the first time, in a long time, I thought, you moved on…  In the moment of my giving up, this very thought has touched your heart…  VGM  

Close your eyes… breathe…  Let all your thoughts go… that very secret thought… yes, let it go too…   Feel the stillness of time… Take it in... Here it is, the moment of true objectivity…  VGM

I am a conservative democrat.  I believe in political balance in my country.  While I voted for Biden, I am very disappointed in the  procrastination of his administration to support Ukraine.  It puts us in line with other war criminals like Putin.  The political games of world leaders makes us responsible for thousands of Ukrainian lives…  VGM  

This immortal and magnificent fireball  is slowly changing its colors from vibrantly indescribable orange to unbearably bright white over the Atlantic every morning…  And walking on clouds reflected on sand is the heavenly road to happiness… VGM

Let’s deport Putin’s family and “friends” back to Russia.  Let them to enjoy the country they built; the “freedom” they created for the Russian people.  It is unfair to spend taxpayer money globally on investigating, prosecuting and sanctioning Putin’s Gang. The cage they built for others should become their own cage! VGM  

Every summer in the 1970s and 1980s I took a bus trip to my grandma’s house located in the Belogorsk province of Crimea.  The little towns throughout the central Crimea looked almost identical; lined up duplexes with a piece of land attached to it where the family shared only one wall of the building and property line with another family of  migrants.  Many of those people spoke different languages.  These temporary accommodations were provided only to those who worked on collective farms.  The temporary houses became permanent homes for many of them…  Half of a building with two rooms, a small kitchen, covered porch and no bathroom or running water became a forever home, and still is, for thousands of Crimean’s.  My aunt was milking cows by hand all her life …  I will never forget the taste of the crust of the white bread carefully cut for me and a small glass jar of warm milk right from under the cow … Of course, I had to work for it a little…) by helping my aunt to feed the cows and

How many of my people can remember the school class: “Russian - a language of inter-ethnic communication” and the endless statistics of what percent of the world’s population considered Russian as a first/second language…  Russian was always compared to English.  I felt like we were getting closer to winning something…)))  In the meantime, the rest of the world didn’t care…  I met many people who came from various socialist countries. I’ve heard sarcastic and even rude comments about learning Russian at school.  They preferred speaking English with me…  I understand why… To be continued…  VGM  

I was born and raised in Sevastopol, a military base, the only city in Crimea and Ukraine that didn’t teach the Ukrainian language at school.  The residents of Sevastopol and  military families spoke every language of every republic of the USSR.  Many militaries  dreamed of retiring in Sevastopol. I remember us laughing at others who couldn’t speak Russian well… My friend’s family, for example, always spoke Ukrainian language at home and only at home…  After all, the Russian language was mandatory not only in the Soviet Union but in all other socialist countries…  Why? …  Why did we believe in this annoying exclusivity of the Russian language…?  Russian nationality? …  To be continued…  VGM  

Putler can’t be neutralized until better replacement is found… The current government is so corrupted and involved in the war crimes… It must go down with him! … Russia will make another “god” …    Unfortunately, it’s their nature… because they don’t know any better… Where can a replacement be found?!… The candidate may be one of the leaders who left the country awhile back, someone who appreciates the value of freedom of speech, freedom of making independent decisions, someone who is free of propaganda, who cares about his people, a great manager elected for 4-8 years (only), capable of concentrating on internal affairs, true democrat, who actually knows what democracy is! …  VGM

I don’t wish for this guy (I can’t call him a “man”) to die… I want him to be charged and tried for war crimes in the international court and his political impotence on display for the world to see.  I want him to be publicly humiliated, the same way he humiliated Ukrainian women and children, his own people and other nationalities over the last 22 years…   I want to witness his own propaganda that he used for so long, turned against him… VGM 

History never repeats itself…  or… does it? Now is the time when Russian last names will be changing from  Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov…  to  Ivanoff, Petroff, Sidoroff…  It reminds me of Jews, Germans, Poles, Turks, Tatars and many other nationalities who were born and lived in the USSR. Many of those people changed their last names to sound Russian to save their lives in the 20th century…  History never repeats itself… or does it? …   VGM   PS: Every remodeling starts with demolition… 

I am looking at the situation in the world from a different perspective.  I see a global rejection and condemnation of one leader, one nation.  And yet, he and his supporters are holding the world in their hands.  The longer the war in Ukraine continues, countries will lose  interest to it. Those countries will focus on their own internal affairs and will go back to doing business with Russia.  His tremendous ego must be satisfied. In the moment of absolute power,  he doesn’t care how many people have to die. We are giving one man more power over the world by reacting slowly. The economic sanctions are crucial in this situation. We have to take drastic actions. We have to work together and fast. On the other hand, the mole is hiding in the hole. Any hole can be a home and a trap with no escape at the same time… VGM P.S. “All wars are a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”     ~John Steinbeck

I remember my great grandfather... I was absolutely fascinated by him...  I don’t remember how old he was at that time. He had lost his hearing and vision completely… Even though he was always able to recognize my great grandmother… he spent lifetime with her… I kept asking myself what does his world  feels  like? …   It seemed  to be incomprehensible, scary and devastating… The same event is happening now, not with one human being, but with a nation… nation of deaf and blind…where the mole is a king… VGM