this is irreverent, but you might consider visiting Edmonton, Alberta, Canada or Yorkton Saskatchewan Canada or even Montreal, PQ ( at least there had been a Ukrainian community in Rosemount there in my day ... with shop signs in Cyrillic, blonde, blue-eyed female rock singers in local bands ...)
Canada's firsts in my life time : first person of Ukrainian ancestry to serve as a provincial premier, first to serve as a supreme court judge, first to serve as titular head of state ( Gov-General representing what is now The Queen of Canada, Liz II ) ... all a big deal for Western Canadians on the prairies and north of the same. which all starts with Vikings (aka RUS) on the Danube long before the Kievan Rus ;-) Here in my eastern Canadian maritime town, a promising local artist has parents from Ukraine ( although the local non-Irish/Scots/Acadian/Wolostook/Anglo community may have almost as many folks from Minsk and my ear is poorly tuned to Russian, as local Poles often remind me ;-) And yes, we follow the news from Ukraine closely : and I have a good student friend in retirement there ... and at least one "linkt-hin" conx to a Ukrainian Smalltalker in Cleveland ... whom I had met in Minneapolis ... ( a VW and VA guy ) Of course, for Canadians, who is and is not Ukrainian varied with the shifting western borders of Ukraine in the past century ... and even more so for Poland ! Many German speakers in western Sask were, in fact, fleeing Russian territory east of Poland after WWII and they followed another generation before and after WWI ! ( which goes back to Catherine the Great, but I digress ... ;-) On 25 January 2014 13:17, Alain Busser <alain.bus...@gmail.com> wrote: > My first thought was that Ukraine is famous for the beauty of its women > (as sang Ringo Starr "the Ukraine girls really knock me out") and I didn't > dare to write it here, for fear that the women on this list tackle me as > sexist. Then, I realized that there are maybe only men here, am I wrong > (that's my hope)? > > Anyway, any time, any place when people are shot just because they want to > be free, there is something really wrong somewhere... It is sad that it can > happen on this planet nowadays, and it happens in several countries... > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Camille Teruel > <camille.ter...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> On 25 janv. 2014, at 16:27, Thomas Worthington <tho...@technouveau.co.uk> >> wrote: >> >> > Well, good luck. But remember that the enemy of your enemy may not be >> your friend and that no one cares more about your welfare than you do, no >> matter how big a smile they have or how warm a speech they make about >> democracy and free speech. >> >> +1 >> >> > >> > On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:06:12 -0000, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> My dear Pharo friends, >> >> >> >> I have no idea if you are aware, but now a big country named Ukraine >> is facing a very hard times. People are fighting for their rights while the >> current government tries to convert the country into Somalia - like regime. >> >> >> >> Why should you care? Because you will like Ukrainians. And referring >> to the context: we develop a lot. If you are not familiar: >> https://github.com/fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle/pull/12 >> >> >> >> I don’t want to cry here, but me, Igor Stasenko and some other pharo >> developers are from Ukraine, and we are extremely worried about our Home. I >> just ask you to think about our country for a minute. Tell your friends: >> “You know, there is this nice country called Ukraine, where people are >> being shot just because they want to have a freedom of speech”. And if you >> believe in God, please say a short prayer for Ukraine, I trust that this is >> important. >> >> >> >> Sorry guys for taking your time, but I was touched by this pull >> request and just wanted to share what is happening around. >> >> Cheers! >> >> Uko >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Thomas Worthington >> > Tech Nouveau >> > >> >> >> >
