Getting Our Motherland Back

We were free in early childhood. Pioneer tie let us breathe freely, books for children inspired for heroism and adventures. The air was the best as everything in our country.

Children were free to speak about everything, no one deprived us of the right for peaceful associations. Schools needed no military guard.

We had no idea that there, in the adult world, people ‘crabbed’ to KGB, joined the Communist Party only for the sake of their careers, gave bribers, stole and bought deficit goods by backstairs influence.

We, who were born in 1970s, learnt those things post factum when adults started tearing the country we loved.

When adults took our Motherland away for the first time, we subconsciously understood they were doing something wrong. They defamed names of the people our pioneer units were named after.

At the same time they preferred to keep silent about their former party membership, they were reluctant to give out KGB whistlers, they converted bribe tariffs into US dollars, they shared plants and factories which originally belonged to people.

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Getting Our Motherland Back
Ukrayinska Pravda