>>[I am a] portfolio manager in a Ukrainian investment firm. Half of my family is Russian, half Ukrainian and my girlfriend is from Crimea and studied in Moscow. I live in Kiev and participated in the protests a lot. Native language is Russian. [Ask me anything.] >>...My father is Russian, his father was a doctor on one the first USSR nuclear submarines. Basically that means that the family could be considered upper middle class by USSR standards. After he retired he could choose any city to live in (chose Kiev), government provided him with an apartment here and a car, which was considered very cool. They miss the glory days in USSR, regret it collapsing and are definitely pro-russian. Just so you know Sevastopol in Crimea is not just a Russian military base, it’s also a very nice place which was a favorite retirement destination for high ranking soviet officers and their families, hence the huge pro-russian sentiment there. >>My other grandfather was the 7th child in the family, the previous 6 died from hunger during Holodomor (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor) His wife’s father was arrested during a wave of repression in 1937 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge) and died in prison for nothing. At that time USSR secret service NKVD was pretty much arresting or killing anyone they liked. His wife and my great grandmother got a stamp in her passport that she was a wife of an enemy of the people and could not get official employment, also she was forced to move to another town and lived for half a year in a train station. In 1947 she got arrested for “speculation” for 5 years because she baked and sold bread to survive. It’s quite natural that this part of the family hates USSR and Russia and believes that Nazi soldiers during German occupation were much nicer than soviet NKVD, I am not kidding, this is an actual quote by my grandmother...
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:32:44 +0000
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