Re: Memories are too deep there.
You bet your ass! :)
And those memories have been stirred up and intensified by Putin's actions.
Communists tried hard to suppress that kind of thinking by mixing a resettling ethnic groups.
About 3 years ago my wife and I were shopping at Costco. As usual, there were folks giving out samples of chips, or pieces of chocolate, cookies, or whatever. One of those folks, a portly lady, says to us "Please try this." So, we did. As we were walking away I tell my wife "That woman came from what was the Soviet Union." "No," my wife says, "given her complexion, she could be Mexican!" "Well," I said, "I know my accents, lets go see." My wife and I often play a game of contrariness. So we traipse on back to that lady and I say "I am going to ask you a question you do not have to answer." "What country did you come from when you came here?" "Kazakhstan," she says. "Welcome to the United States!," I said. "I came from Ukraine, and I've been here for over 60 years." "We're all the same people." she said a flashed a wide grin showing a couple stainless steel teeth.
And those memories have been stirred up and intensified by Putin's actions.
Communists tried hard to suppress that kind of thinking by mixing a resettling ethnic groups.
About 3 years ago my wife and I were shopping at Costco. As usual, there were folks giving out samples of chips, or pieces of chocolate, cookies, or whatever. One of those folks, a portly lady, says to us "Please try this." So, we did. As we were walking away I tell my wife "That woman came from what was the Soviet Union." "No," my wife says, "given her complexion, she could be Mexican!" "Well," I said, "I know my accents, lets go see." My wife and I often play a game of contrariness. So we traipse on back to that lady and I say "I am going to ask you a question you do not have to answer." "What country did you come from when you came here?" "Kazakhstan," she says. "Welcome to the United States!," I said. "I came from Ukraine, and I've been here for over 60 years." "We're all the same people." she said a flashed a wide grin showing a couple stainless steel teeth.
