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Catherine MEHEM. And the present, and future Kyiv - Kozelets
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| Megem |
Date: Sunday, 01.11.2009, 16:02 | Message # 1 |
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Catherine V. Boryshpolets, Mehem by marriage, was born in the village Chemer Olyshevskoho, now Kozeletskyi, district, Chernihiv region in a family of farmers. Severe childhood, adolescence and adult years due to policies of the totalitarian regime against hodivnyka people - the peasantry. Exhausting, almost unpaid work on the farm, practical enslavement (passports issued to farmers only in 1958).
Despite the natural understanding and success in school, she was unable to continue after the 7 th grade - life become forced to work. Everything was burning in her hands - from the work in the field and on the estate to the building and finishing works. And powerful intellect and artistic abilities except prompted her to artistic creativity. Catherine V. good drawing, embroidery shirts, towels, rugs, manufactures toys, beautiful singing. She sang in one of the best Ukrainian folk groups in Kozeletskom culture house and a church choir.
As a boy, Mrs. V. made poems and songs, which her soul respond to the beauty of nature and human good and evil deeds. In recent years, besides poems, she wrote many works of prose (fairy tales and opovidok). Some of her works are represented in this collection. They have excellent written in Ukrainian, with interesting stories and thoughts, well constructed dialogue. They radiate the love of people and our smaller brethren, the nature of human virtues - diligence, responsibility and right of speech, compassion and assistance to the needy. All these moral principles inherent in the mentality of the Ukrainian people, the author inherited from their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfather.
Valuable for understanding the life of peasants in the USSR is the memories and Catherine Vasilivna "My Life", submitted at the end of this collection. |
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| Megem |
Date: Sunday, 01.11.2009, 16:06 | Message # 2 |
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Who wants to better understand the artist, and any person has to travel and explore its krayesvitom peripeteia his life. We will not and we touched the soul and narobku Catherine Vasilivna Mehem, deviate from these postulates fair. So wormwood in Chernigov, the birthplace of Catherine V. and, except for short trips, has lived all his life. She described her life the most space, figuratively, direct and simple in the above memoirs "My Life". Born Catherine V. Chemeri in the village for several years before the war. War - the first thing zakarbuvalosya in her memory. Then came the famine miserably heavy peasant family life with four little children.
Working at the limits of natural resources to feed the huge country, the peasant had virtually nothing - not a desired food or time to relax, not to mention the satisfaction of the needs of wind, creative development and education. Ukrainian villagers were dying of hunger in the world's best black soil. Antylyudskyy totalitarian regime created this life for survivors of the people.
However, greedy political doctrine and artificial famines could not vytruyity, destroy nature Ukrainian farmer who is born and grows on the ground, barefoot shodzhuye, admiring and piznayuchy, difficult process callous hands zroshuyuchy sweat and tears to make it mold and children. For everything from his grandfather, great-grandfather, with great love and fidelity, fiercely and devotedly for the Almighty Program. And the roots of it - from childhood, because just then beginning to be developed and that this God, what a man comes into the world. So no wonder with which zalyublenistyu-love in the beauty of the earth, all living and susche that it and over it - from person to midge and flowers and leaves - Catherine V. depicts its cradle - his childhood hunger and poor, light and beautiful!
And the charming beauty of the environment, and those intimate vociferous Ukrainian songs, and proceeded to work, and in hours of joy and sadness, and Christian and colorful folk customs, and that ochyschaly vidrodzhuvaly soul pronyzaly all its nature, stimulated in the girl unconscious desire to join that the People of God and creation. Soul roarings are poured and sang her first timidly rhymes and songs, and imagination vytvoryuvala to heaven sheet amazing pictures of hmarok.
Gifted, awakened mother-nature, Kate seeks training and further svitovidkryttya. Poverty forces parents to take classes after 7 daughter from school. But unless it was full training when visiting the school depended on the availability of boots.
School taught to read, write, count, and most importantly - prochynyla window into the world of poetry, prose works, all prycharuvala genius Shevchenko. His poems, studied at school, remember and tell. For it is not even poetry, then - the soul of the people.
Families need help and Katya started working life. Although rather continues, because since childhood, helped their parents on a farm and brother nyanchyla. Such is the fate of rural children.
And what a job for a teenager? She is also only 15 years. That nurse went to Kyiv. And while there treated her well, we still did not survive. Become sad for family and returned home to both her beloved marshes and bow to the sisters and girlfriends happy, singing and dancing, Vechernits-trudivnyts, because this is where the girls were preparing their trousseau.
Once again she tries to escape from poverty and oppressive reality. With friends zaverbuvalas of Donbass, but not beget in exile. Returns again to his native village and goes to work on the farm.
Subsequently, hardworking young pig-woman sent to Moscow on the All-Union Exhibition of achievements of agriculture. Moscow - unattainable dream of millions in those days and many years later. Extremely large city, completely different world stunning girl. It seemed - a chance for new and better life for self-actualization. But so hard to get away from the house, the native land of all, what zroslasya and loved that. They cry, they dream ... And 18-year-old girl Katja sytoho away from metropolitan life benefit of marriage in his native village, in misery and toil.
For the third time Mrs. V. had the opportunity to change their future and for the third time, and has probably forever, she returns to life and work the land. Do not let the soil and is therefore immense love for us to sign the Earth to Man. And the cycle continues sacred event presented by Ukrainian-world farmers and distributed them to the best of its soils.
Our farmer lovingly nurtured from the ground seed, sown with great care and to harvest, which ends the annual cycle of peasant land and tireless work.
And here they are - life-giving fruit of their mutual affection and common work: beautiful, fragrant, full power, water supply, charged energy of the sun, are delicious! This - a key to the welfare of the family, the birth of healthy children, as parents, plekatymut ground. And ended the earthly life, merge, rozchynyatsya in it, to then be reborn first autumn gifts of mother-earth, and then winter, because just when the earth rests, born in rural children. Thus were born the parents of Catherine V., she, her husband and her two children.
Excellent work on the Earth, its fruits, and farmers, when it is free, Messengers, harmonious, creative. In this work the land called his daughter, loved this work and prahla Catherine V., and so she was not at that time in the village ... Shortly after his return from Moscow Catherine married such as herself, Basil farmers who refused to remain in civilized Germany and a professional military.
Vasily Sakovich - the choice and a gift of fate, her love, support and secure the rear and at work, and in the works for life.
Newlyweds lived hard and lovely and friendly, but for the hard work zabuvalysya common problems. Finally, they waited this long-awaited daughter, and later, sonny appeared in the new house. Near the house - with mallow chernobrivtsa and huge bush lyubystku. Cottage very small - two rooms and a porch. In the first - huge stove with wood and cherinnyu Paul almost pivkimnaty, mysnyk, table with benches and images. Second - ben, she and the bedroom, she and creative workshop. And what is it comfortable. Clean, always bleached inside and outside twice a year (it is - the law for a Ukrainian woman) dressed with towels images. |
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Date: Sunday, 01.11.2009, 16:08 | Message # 3 |
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Kids grow it (and their sisters and synochka cholovikovoyi) with love and affection, handles great city, pulls unreachable rate on the farm and embroidery, embroidery, because the neighbors are new designs patterns, and it - new ideas of their realization . She never copied, always invested his own. It was the desire of creation. And her embroidery alive, are unique. Suffice it recognize those patterns that hang if not in every house, then - through one. READING always admired her work and asked them pereznyaty. That desire for the creation of beauty forced this very moving, fast and breachy demoiselle, also burdens the work to include such painstaking, hard (for someone, even boring) work that requires a lot of time.
Vyshivaya, Catherine V. sang, the children told tales. And not strange, because they have long ended, and their. And how many of them come up and perepovila ...
Towels embroidered on calico tiny cross and a picture - of woven cloth with his hands, which still nadbala for virginity. And so it natkala, that is now. For virginity nashyla and vyshyvanok-shirts. Traditionally - black with red. Even today they boast.
How is your grandmother's house matusyna or embroidery? Does any other attraction, charm, from grandparents, great-grandfather? With their energy, the covenant of love to you? Save!
And Catherine V. wove tracks, rugs, scarves, ryadyuhy on a big, beautiful and interesting wooden machine. I would like it to have him present the choice of colored yarn and dye fabrics! But no. Left, pereyizhdzhayuchy.
10 years later, the 31 year life when grown kids (daughter - 8, son - 4 years) zmuchena kolkhoz backbreaking work, sick (very sick hands and relax or feel sorry for yourself it could not) Catherine V. unrestrainable thirst of creativity and for the future of children coax male tractor driver to move to the district center Kozelets, ignoring the opportunity to settle in Kiev.
Kozelets just 20 km from Chemera. This is the maximum distance, which released her native village. Here and nature, land, work on it, but still a bit freer, more leisure time and opportunities to realize their creative needs
Clearly, the structure of the new place had some difficulties. Catherine V. But not with those hands down. Earlier rostyla bread now pektyme. For the work she loved, not gnushayas no work. Hour changes in the bakery, a man in a collective farm tractor from morning till night, but children need family warmth and attention. With 6 years Olya left two brother, also a duty on the economy - chicken pasta, herbs ripen in potato seedlings break off. Vasily Sakovich working on the farm ably, honestly, faithfully. Its value, want to appoint a foreman tractor brigade and award the medal. That's only necessary to join the Communist Party, which offered him annoying, as in the Army in Germany. But he could not forgive and forget rozkurkulenyy, uprooted, evicted as far as Siberia, his family Kosachev. His mother to stay in the village, married, a grandfather, a strong willed man, left the village, vyryv dugout and lived in it, only to die in their native land. Older sister Catherine, after school, went to be sent home in Chelyabinsk, and then the mother to help his daughter.
To have more free time, Catherine V. goes to work cleaning to veterinary college. And it is here, talking with educators, it is only beginning to write and poems, stories, and also sings in the choir. And do not forget about the land - smallholding, large garden with Kozeltse. We can not land it and all that it can grow! In addition to vegetables - many different colors. But even garden - walnut, apple, pear, plum, apricot, mulberry, blackberry bushes, red and white porichok, gooseberry, Kalin. And, of course, garden cherry round houses - about 10 varieties! Land viddyachuvala her beauty zela flowering, harvest, full grain Okroshka and barn, and even Fine and always welcoming table and prosperity in the house.
And now, on the threshold of 70 years, Katherine V. beruchka and very fast work. Despite the pain and the disease it zaplidnyuye ground. Would take pity on yourself, relax, because everything needs can buy. But the genetic code of Ukrainian rural women trudivnyts and mother, is the end of earthly existence. |
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Date: Sunday, 01.11.2009, 16:09 | Message # 4 |
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Later, Catherine V. goes to work at the House of Pioneers, near the house where more drawn to art. Trainee children embroider, writes poetry, stories, trying to appear in district newspaper. Unfortunately, many written in the time lost. Exercise books for 12 sheets, written off hustenko her poems, dedicated to the review and did not return. And Catherine V. enjoys embroidery. At this time - the creation of carpets. Embroidered cross on the rough cloth of wool thread. This is a very labor-intensive work. For 10 years Catherine V. vyshyla 4 large carpets. Who did not keep the needle in his hand and not put on any cloth cross, say - a little bit. But do a simple calculation. 1 cm containing 4 crosses. But every large (1.5 to 2.0 m) carpet - 120 thousand daggers. And each must nashyty at a certain place and a certain color. Songs and ornaments create itself, did not make preparations - all held in memory. Most pidbyrala and threads, and then oh how they missed! It was in 1974. Was forced to dissolve wool things, especially scarves to choose the color. And all this without compulsion, or the urgent need for material benefit. Just call the soul. Employment creation carpet lasts more than a year, mainly - in the winter when there is no garden work. Her carpets - the bright colors of blossoming earth. With muted semitones, it will not work, because the world perceives solar range povnosyloho violence of colors.
The first rug out bright light. When her daughter went to study in Kharkiv took him on a long 5 years as a representative of the native home as a source matusynoyi love, warmth and zahystku. Two carpets were embroidered with flowers, and the Olympics-80 - with Olympic symbols. He gave his son.
An important milestone in the work Mrs. V. is joining the folk group Kozeletskyi culture house. It is the brightest, nayplidnishyy and recognized creative period. Her work reaches audiences. Life is rich, joyful - travel, speeches, radio, television, meetings, communication with the same zalyublenymy in folk art people.
Mrs. V. can not be aloof active social life. After donchyne environment is attached to the international organization "Women's Society, led by a beautiful woman and a great organizer Maria M. Drach. Catherine V. often came to Kyiv on activities of the organization. It also RESTING, which invited prominent representatives of Ukrainian intelligentsia, and concerts. Attending kindergartens and children's hospitals, which reads poems, sings Christmas carols, folk songs.
Even where I worked with Catherine V. - on the farm, vocational, Pioneer House, House of Culture, the hospital - the staff loved and respected by her sincerity, diligence, sensitivity, joyful singing success, ability rozradyty help create holiday. She has the gift of God's love for people, communication, education of youth.
But as she prepares to table covers! All admired her belts, cakes with poppy seeds, cherry pies with cheese, apples, cabbage, etc.., Baked svizhynoyu, sausage and Krovyanka. And what borscht! A special word of harbuzyani oatmeal and sweet potato stew. I sincerely admire feast Catherine Vasilivna and fans of her creativity - Professors Ludmyla Porokhnyak-Hanovska and Yuri Bezdrobnyy. And it is not so easy - on the gas stove. No - it is in the oven, as before cooking her mother and grandmother, and a sweet spread of haze around. She jealously keeps the old recipes, and their findings are not like when someone interferes with their advice in this area. Smoking kiln - a special ritual that Catherine V. nobody trusts. Vasily Sakovich often tries to help. But better he would not do this!
After moving to Kozelets she suffered long without this sacred for every Ukrainian peasant homes - furnace, which has always occupied an important place in the house. So for the first occasion came in the mansion Catherine Vasilivna oven. And today, a neighbor asked her to cook meals for the holiday, whether baked breads and she is happy to make the health of people.
Long awaited oven was compiled separately built cabin in which lived pliminnytsi and later - lodger. Although this word does not convey the warm, friendly relations, which consisted of those tenants and owners. They lived there for over 30 years. Do many of us love strange people living in our households? A family Mehemiv love people. He likes to communicate with them, exchange views, experiences, skills. Families had and Makarenko long lived in households Mehemiv, birth and brought up children, celebrated and mourned with Mehemamy, helping one another. J posohodni remain good friends.
And how many girls and boys have passed through her soul and heart? They were mostly college students 17-18 years, who came from remote villages to learn the first time leaving their homes. Is could not help them Ekaterina V., which is itself his youth sought his destiny in the world and needed support. But they also need advice and assistance, and good words, and often just a dinner. Together with her husband taught their people and help each other, cook, clean, and aging in the relationship between them. Often, Catherine V. and svaryla guys nicely (and she is able, and voice Nivroku) and then with smoking pot (which is strictly banned, because her family is not is done), with the idling, poor assessment and much of that as would it have made a mother. In preparing the girls, taught them to embroider and knit. And how many songs together and perespivano maiden secrets peresluhano! In all and all she had and the time and warmth, and patience. All this was not its responsibility. But pustyvshy young people to the Lord, she voluntarily took on responsibility for themselves and some education. All held in order to help and demanding, as promised to the parents when they leave their children under the care of good and caring owners. I loved the youth, respect for Catherine V., owed the successful completion of training. And already the parents were satisfied! Even now welcome her on holidays. And her students sometimes come with their halves and children. Is this not happiness? This is also the great gift of God - talent mentoring, motherhood and love for people! |
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Date: Sunday, 01.11.2009, 16:11 | Message # 5 |
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How many Ukrainian families could make yourself happy and children deprived of parental care, and small, and the elders gave the mother warm, family communication, good advice. For giving, much zbahachuyeshsya!
Authority to open a church in Kozeltse. Under the leadership of Father Michael V. Catherine, along with other attached to the village, collecting money and rebuild the temple, which later sang in a church choir. Even her father, Vasily Ulasovych high handsome handsome man who proudly kept posture to a great age, had a beautiful voice and sang in church choir, and was to end life regent singer. He bequeathed it to their religious books because I thought that she was among three daughters and son will continue his work.
Ill health forced to leave Catherine V. choir. And just then, no possibility of public activity, it starts very actively and systematically write. Nobody interferes with, or distract. Grown children and grandchildren. They have their business, their concerns. Nayizhdzhayut, unfortunately, not often. Only daughter comes every two weeks.
Catherine V. Here comes the big hall - its cabinet. Itself. Comfortable around - the creation of her hands, looking in the window garden, quiet. Sits in one of two large writing desk with techkamy, writing utensils, books, manuscripts, photos and more with a lot of Miscellaneous. And, of course, small images. And everything she needed, she knows everything and nothing to clean. So begins sacral action.
Vasily Sakovich, who watched with surprise him, said: "The handle is moving very fast, does not stop. Faces of the enlightened, spiritual, happy, forget about the pain, resentment. It seems even wrinkles rozhladzheni. Easy smile that changes suffering a surprise. A pen runs along the vein, dancing, as the garden hoe continuously danced in her able hands, whether nyschachy weeds, or obhortayuchy potato stalks. "Nobody could catch her in any work - from pride in his wife continues Vasily Sakovich - most lines held until 4, when we have the daughter of 2, and all first and reaches the edge, and still help us." And Catherine V. itself says that all that writing, and imagine if sees before him, even tolerated in the circumstances, and then describes the drawn picture of the imagination. Writes quickly, not obdumuyuchy without changes and drafts. I can not stop, as if life nahromadzhuvala head (and yes it was) all the fairy tales and stories, poems and songs and had no time to put them on paper. So write when there is to say, if urgent, if nothing else artificially invent.
Her prose without precise definition of style and genre. Here - the reality is familiar and close, but here - some kind of mysticism with magical power of influence, something supernatural, it beckons, it poboyuyeshsya. Often captured opoviddyu, forget, or fairy tale or reality. A poem ... They raise a whole range of feelings and emotions - and the laughter, tears and sadness and joy for the victory of good. Having seen something deeply impressive. Works of different depth and power of influence, successful and less successful, but they are all clean, bezhytrisni not burdened with something artificial, insincere and artificial. And in his innocence - gentle-tender, as the soul of their author - the daughter of Ukrainian village. |
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Date: Sunday, 01.11.2009, 16:12 | Message # 6 |
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this word is considered offensive - "redneck." I want to believe that it comes from malovzhyvanoho "zelo". Zrynaye memory somewhere hear about and fully zelo ... "and seems rampage young zelenyny, potion, which subsequently has zatsvisty, zakolosytys, rozrodytys.
So the village freely and bear children vypestuye spirit and physically healthy to work on land and in love with her. And give the best of them in the city to improve city life. For in it the ground encased in asphalt and gives it strength, kindness and duhovosti rights.
But fewer and fewer schebechy kids in the villages. Villages are disappearing. We do not allow the destruction of villages. Because of the destruction of their poor human soul, or even become completely inhuman.
So the city line and grandchildren and great-grandchildren to grandparents in the village to namyluvatysya beauty, gain health and strength, enrich the soul, listening to ancient stories, positive energy prosyakneni ancestors. And adult citizens as though seeking to old age have a plot of land to recover, and healthy body and mind work on the ground. For those who are not like our Mother Earth is the foundation of our national identity with you, uniqueness. And this is what we are valuable in the world. |
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Date: Sunday, 01.11.2009, 16:13 | Message # 7 |
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Often coming to the hospitable and friendly hostess relatives, friends and acquaintances. And kozelchany, and chemeryany, and Kiev, and Chernihiv. Arrival and distance from the Urals - Chelyabinsk, Siberia - Brother, and Kazakhstan. And all thrilled. In order house and yard needs. Land sown, planted, carefully handled each piece. Rooms for special dressed. Everywhere on the walls, tables, sofas things created her hands prosyakneni its soul and skill. Foremost - embroidery (ornaments, flowers, birds, even the whole picture). Long time no embroidery and decorating images, portraits and family photos blossoming towels even in our villages. And once they were indispensable feature of home decoration, the pride of the mistress. Next - wreaths with ribbons, artificial flowers, pillows and cushions, sofa and bed covered with embroidered carpets. On the walls - pictures of daughter and granddaughter. And yet - dolls. These in Catherine Vasilivna special treatment. Maybe because its childhood, like other children, especially in villages, have been deprived of them (except home-made, mostly with rags). Friends give her dolls, often broken. It restores them and sewing them beautiful dresses. Even animals vest. A particularly beautiful dolls in Ukrainian costumes. Eight years ago in their eksponuvaly Kozeletskom museum inns and even foreigners want to buy them, and not caught Catherine Vasilivna home. And even better. She wants them to divorce. |
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Date: Sunday, 01.11.2009, 16:13 | Message # 8 |
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And all that bright and the whole lot, until his eyes get lost. "You, Mrs. V., as the museum. Very nice. And when, and how, and why are you all doing this? "- Asking guests. Kids surprise considering unusual anywhere before. And someone probably can not understand, why spend time and strength, when all that you can buy, even better. Probably, the people are deprived of the ability to create.
Not everything goes to Catherine Vasilivna perfectly, as required by art and other canons. She studied the canons do not - do not know. And do not seek them. But create a free, inspirational, sincere and quickly fixing is the first creative impulse. An idea and it just embodies it with what is, and in the conditions prevailing at the time, without long discussions, reasons to not speak, because even I do not want. It never rejects the less successful work, because for her and good work and weaker - that highlights her work, her life ..
NO what is so sorry Mrs. V., as what is not received adequate education. Therefore, as clearly and certainly wanted and dreamed of doing everything for her children to learn. His daughter graduated from Faculty of Biology University of Kharkiv, later defended the thesis. The son attended the veterinary college. And wherever he worked, never left the work on the ground. It is defined, where children will learn it and this choice was not dictated by material benefits. Their profession connected with nature and agriculture. Higher educational level, but all the same victory of love to the ground and in children. Ongoing communication with the ground elder grandmother grandson Alexander - Student Agricultural University. Only junior Cyril, who inherited from her grandmother Katrusi most artistic talents, went to high technology. He is a student of Polytechnic University. But at the same time he a musician, an artist who has great achievements in computer graphics, designer-inventor with great creative potential. And as the grandmother, is only to self-education, no special professional training. .
Catherine V. be a lot of that criticism, but surely it is - an outstanding personality. Efficient, talented, hardworking, optimistic and zhyttyestverdnaa. She makes her own life and works of life. In her tales, songs and stories have grown her children and grandchildren. Sure, that and grandchildren will zasluhovuvatys, zachytuvatys so good, bright, simple and yet magnetic pieces that fly the national depths. And never will neither bandits nor dawdle or drug addicts. It will also siren'kyj, interesting, thoughtlessly weight and grow the creators of their destiny, zalyublenymy-love in the earth that gave birth to their Ukrainian with hearts open to God.
Many lucky, fateful meeting with a highly educated, talented, spiritual and beautiful in their creative work gave people the fate of Catherine Vasylivna. This family and Bezdrobnyh (Yuri and Larissa Kostivna) and Ludmyla Porokhnyak-Hanovska, Tamara Panasivna Nikita, Catherine G. Duża, Galina G. Ovchar, Vasily Nechepa. And her girlfriends from folk singing group - zhytteradisni trudivnytsi singing! These highly spiritual, indifferent to social problems individual line to each other because they have a natural need for communication, understanding, mutual support in the joint creation of something very important that all of us together and raises to heights of national identity.
So when is this collection, then fly it zozulkoyu not only for Ukraine but also to distant Chelyabinsk, Bratsk, and Kazakhstan, bringing warmth and love of their native land to their children, adding strength and vigor does not dissolve, do not forget that they are Ukrainian . Fly to it and self-sufficient, prosperous America. There Ukrainian and tremulous remember home. And deuce children born Americans, but want to know as much about Ukraine.
This is how she - Catherine V. Mehem, one of 47 million. So much more interesting acquaintances with creative personalities, which is rich in Ukraine, we expect? Look at each other in a zazyrnite. Probably, and you want someone to talk about.
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I would just like to take some time too thank the active members for doing what you do and making the community what it is im a long time reader and first time poster so i just wanted to say thanks. |
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