I have literally learned English trying to decipher Mr Waters script on the sleeves of the vinyl set of The Wall. It was the most precious record in my small collection (western records were incredibly expensive in Poland in the beginning of 80s - you had to pay third to half of the average salary for the new one). It still sits on the shelf in my living room and I still listen to the recordings (although not to the vinyl itself).
It is very sad, that, quoting the artist himself "worms ate into his brain". The disgust for Anglo-Saxon imperialism have made him completely blind to the Russian one. As a former subject of the latter I can only wish him to come back to his senses.
I do remember very well, the long cargo trains filled with Russian soldiers, tanks and other war machines, that were often waiting on the tracks for the green light. I was often waiting for the train to move and allow me to cross the tracks. My hometown was located on the strategic railway, used to carry these troops to western Poland end East Germany.
We were painfully aware, that in case of war, our hometown would be very convenient target for the nuclear strike aiming at bloking these transports.
I also do remember the feeling of overwhelming hopelessness in a country that we liked to describe as a most joyful barrack in a camp. The barrack as in prison - where we lived. Large one, but prison, nonetheless - where you could leave only with government approval, after interrogation by security. We know this Russian imperialism first-hand, and one thing that we have learned is that you never should trust anything that they say, the treaties they sign or the referenda that they carry.
This is the experience that people in the West don't have. It would be much better, if they would just tried to learn something before revealing their ignorance and disdain for those lowly eastern people, who stubbornly refuse to comply to Russian orders.
Hmm, are you saying Putin would happily free us, Europeans, from Poland and other culturally alien leech countries if he could? That would benefit whole EU if we could drop that Eastern ballast. I say, if he wants, let him do that!
You guys do not fit EU anyway with your hatred of law, order, human rights, LGBT, ecology, safety nets for people, left values, secularism, public transport, immigrants etc. It's understandable you want to keep leeching from us and keep wasting our money instead of going back to Russia where you naturally belong. But we should think about EU future, not about cries of some spoiled Poles wanting to leech new SUVs from us so they can keep running over immigrants and cyclists.
Waters, poor dear, is surely reflecting on how inappropriate it was for him to perform The Wall concert in Berlin in 1990, celebrating events that had made Mr Putin feel helpless and anxious: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32066222 How could he be so insensitive?
I have literally learned English trying to decipher Mr Waters script on the sleeves of the vinyl set of The Wall. It was the most precious record in my small collection (western records were incredibly expensive in Poland in the beginning of 80s - you had to pay third to half of the average salary for the new one). It still sits on the shelf in my living room and I still listen to the recordings (although not to the vinyl itself).
It is very sad, that, quoting the artist himself "worms ate into his brain". The disgust for Anglo-Saxon imperialism have made him completely blind to the Russian one. As a former subject of the latter I can only wish him to come back to his senses.
I do remember very well, the long cargo trains filled with Russian soldiers, tanks and other war machines, that were often waiting on the tracks for the green light. I was often waiting for the train to move and allow me to cross the tracks. My hometown was located on the strategic railway, used to carry these troops to western Poland end East Germany.
We were painfully aware, that in case of war, our hometown would be very convenient target for the nuclear strike aiming at bloking these transports.
I also do remember the feeling of overwhelming hopelessness in a country that we liked to describe as a most joyful barrack in a camp. The barrack as in prison - where we lived. Large one, but prison, nonetheless - where you could leave only with government approval, after interrogation by security. We know this Russian imperialism first-hand, and one thing that we have learned is that you never should trust anything that they say, the treaties they sign or the referenda that they carry.
This is the experience that people in the West don't have. It would be much better, if they would just tried to learn something before revealing their ignorance and disdain for those lowly eastern people, who stubbornly refuse to comply to Russian orders.
Hmm, are you saying Putin would happily free us, Europeans, from Poland and other culturally alien leech countries if he could? That would benefit whole EU if we could drop that Eastern ballast. I say, if he wants, let him do that!
You guys do not fit EU anyway with your hatred of law, order, human rights, LGBT, ecology, safety nets for people, left values, secularism, public transport, immigrants etc. It's understandable you want to keep leeching from us and keep wasting our money instead of going back to Russia where you naturally belong. But we should think about EU future, not about cries of some spoiled Poles wanting to leech new SUVs from us so they can keep running over immigrants and cyclists.
Waters, poor dear, is surely reflecting on how inappropriate it was for him to perform The Wall concert in Berlin in 1990, celebrating events that had made Mr Putin feel helpless and anxious: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32066222 How could he be so insensitive?
I'm afraid you yourself have fallen victim to a Slavic tongue twister: Zaporizhzhia / Запоріжжя is written with two "zh"s.