"Where the Table Was Obvious – There Stood the Grave" on the Wreckage of the USSR

Felix Gorelik

The burnt-out building that you see in this photo, during Soviet times was a beautiful children’s kindergarten in the city of Lugansk, Ukraine. When you at that time entered this building, the beautiful architecture, the spaciousness, the happy faces and happy laughter of the children in there, made your heart sing with joy. The staff of this beautiful Children’s Home was so devoted, so expert, so innovative that they were honored at the All Union Exhibition of Peoples Culture. More than 200 children were taken care in this children’s palace each day. Here they were fed, they were taught, they sang, they danced, they drew, they were also taught about nature and preservation.

Meeting in Lugansk, Ukraine, against rising prices.

This is the former Children's Palace in Lugansk.

But this former children’s palace is in ruins. One part was bought by one of the "New Ukrainians" while the other was robbed of everything that was in the building and it was infested with drunks and bums and then set on fire.

Could this be called just a chance happening? But in the USSR the children were called the "most privileged class"! For them there were build children’s palaces, pioneer camps in the Crimea, schools of learning, of innovations and these schools were even called "Young Academy of Sciences." Now the privileged class are the new businessmen and the speculators, racketeers, bandits, former directors and all shady characters of the underworld. The children of this new class are the only ones that can go to these resorts and these privileged children are even sent to resorts all over the world.

But the daily propaganda keeps churning out vicious diatribe about "Stalin Repressions" in all of the media, which is owned by these new oligarchs. The former racketeer and member of the band Alex Greka, Tinat Achmetov from Donetsk, Ukraine, is the richest billionaire in the Ukraine. The crooked zhulik, R. Abramovich, is the richest billionaire in Russia and at the same time the Governor of Chukotka, appointed by Putin. Here is just a short summary of Abramovich’s businesses:

  • He owns the best soccer team in England – Chelsea Club.

  • He owns his own jet Boeing 767 which is a home away from home. This plane is even bigger and more lavish than that of the President of the USA.

  • He has three Yachts worth millions – one of them cost 72 million sterling –132 meters long.

  • His London residence is worth 4.7 million Euro dollars.

  • He is buying a whole summer resort in Italy plus many homes in the French Alps.

Other millionaires are trying to keep up with him, while at the same time helping Putin, as they did, in the last presidential election.

It is no wonder that in the last 10 years, these millionaires have sent across the border of Russia, over $300 billion dollars into the foreign banks.

The tragedy of all this is the death of millions of people due to the terrible conditions now prevailing in former USSR. This is the kind of "dictatorship of law" that Putin has put into force. He stated again and again that "rethinking of privatization will not be looked at again"! The new bandits have replaced the old bandits of Yeltsin and Gaidar.

We can really predict: the historical overthrow of these gravediggers of socialism and USSR is coming!

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