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For me and millions of people around the world, the day of 24 Feb, 2022 started from a shocking morning with worries about the peace of the world, the lives of Ukrainians and Russian soldiers. But for Ukrainian civilians, with the whistling scream from bombing came across the dawn sky of Kyiv, their minds started haunting with horrific fear.

24 Feb, 2022 will be recorded as an extremely important day in the modern world history with totally opposite narrative by two sides, Ukraine along with most of the countries in the world and Russia.

 What’s in Putin’s mind, what’s the motivation of his insane gamble? Why did he choose 24, Feb as the first day of the military operation?

From an image and the annotation to this image---” Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, near the Kremlin Wall during the national celebrations of the 'Defender of the Fatherland Day' in Moscow, Feb. 23, 2022”, people may get some clues.

In Putin’s mind, Ukraine is part of the fatherland of Russia, getting back any fatherlands is reasonable for Russians. This thought is the backbone of his determination to this war. but he ignored the basic fact that Ukraine is an independent country, a state with sovereignty , Ukraine has not taken any actions dirtecly threating Russia's security.  

UN is the most important international organization established after the 2nd world war in 1945. The purpose of its establishment is stopping the future wars.  Putin’s war to Ukraine is the largest war after the 2nd world, cities were bombed, thousands of people including civilians have died, new born babies wrapped in blanket were laid in line on the open ground in the harsh winter, refugees in heavy winter coats poured into Poland, women in tears holding the hands of their young children left their old parent refusing to leave behind.…the war has brought massive humanitarian crisis. 

After fierce debate in U.N. General Assembly meets, on Feb 28, a proposal was approved with the support of over 2/3 countries.According to the resolution,Russia should stop the war, Russian troops need to be pulled back to Russia’s side based on the border line recognized by UN in 1991.  But sadly the resolution does't work on Putin, the war is still on.

Since the war was not as successful as Putin has expected. this outrageouse paranoia even threatened using nuclear force. Russia's nuclear deterrent forces was put to "high alert" since his nuclear comment. In Central  European countries, panic people rushed for Iodine which they believe may protect them from radiation. 

Not only Ukranians are the victims of the war, but also Russians. People took out their anger to some innocent Russians as a form of protest to this war. In many art exhibitions, dance performances, sports events, Russian participants' names were removed from the lists. The most influencial expulsion happened in Beijing 2022 Paralympics in which Russian and Belarusian athletes were banned of joining the game. Today is the 3rd day of the game, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw to date, Ukraine team ranks No.1 in total amount of golden medals(3) followed by China, Canada, Austria and US! 

For any wars, people want to know the origin of the war. As a previous KGB of Soviet Union, Putin is an intelligent person with a strong sense of past glory.  Putin knows Russians yean for the past glory too, especially the old generations like him who have gone through the era of Soviet Union being a superpower. After the fall of Soviet Union, as the leader of the most powerful country of Russians, Putin has been angry at US who led the collapse of Soviet Union and has been holding the desire of rebuilding the glory of Russians. There is nothing wrong of Putin's dream of Russian revival, but it should be succeeded by developing economy, not by plunter from wars. 

一則加拿大擁有除烏克蘭和俄羅斯外的世界第三大Ukrainians community的信息,讓我想到了發生在2014年的一起空難。在那空難中,一架馬航客機MH17在烏克蘭境內墜毀,造成機上二百多人全部喪生的慘劇。後經荷蘭組成的第三方調查組調查,得出飛機是被俄製導彈擊中的結論。聽說乘客當中有五十幾名加拿大公民,當時不明白為什麽。現在明白了。

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樂樂的一年級

  七歲時樂樂準備上小學一年級了。報名的那天,我忙著填寫各種表格,樂樂則一直躲在一根大柱子後麵觀察著為周圍的一切。後來樂樂被一位漂亮的女老師帶到二樓談話,我不可以跟上去。樂樂被帶上樓的時候,我看到他的眼淚從眼底冒了出來。我真為樂樂捏把汗,怕因為他不跟老師交流,而不能被錄取。等樂樂乖乖地被那位漂亮女老師牽著手從樓上下來時,樂樂的眼淚不見了,他被錄取了,我高興極了!我沒有問樂樂剛才和老師在一起時發生的事情,隻是想:一定是這位漂亮女老師的笑容讓飛沒那麽緊張了,要是以後她能當樂樂的老師該多好啊!

第一天背著書包去上學了,樂樂感到很興奮。這裏的教室與幼兒園時的不一樣,桌椅一排排,一列列將整個教室擠得滿滿的。第一排桌子緊貼著老師的講台桌。兩人一桌,他被安排到與一位長著機靈眼睛的小女生一桌。

樂樂的班主任是位四十歲左右的女老師,她姓林,既是班主任又是語文老師,數學老師正是那位漂亮的女老師,她姓謝,為此,我還著實高興了一陣。但僅僅一周的時間,因為不睡午覺,還說話扣了班裏的紀律分,班主任就通知我:中午樂樂不可以在學校吃飯和午休了。數學老師因為他上課走神,做小動作而把我叫到學校兩次,婉轉地讓她帶樂樂去檢查一下身體,看看是不是體內缺少什麽,而影響他的行為。

一年級的樂樂是個不招老師喜歡,完全讓老師頭痛的孩子。班主任對他的評價是:目無組織紀律,不和老師講話,上課不守紀律,還愛捉弄同學。學校在一年級的兩個假期還專門對一些課堂聽講差的孩子進行訓練。兩次都有樂樂的份兒。但三天,六個上午的訓練過後,在老師的鼓勵與棒棒糖的激勵下,老師發現他最多也隻能是保持15分鍾的合格課堂聽講狀態。

專注力差直接就影響了他的成績,開學後一個月的第一次拚音小測他得了38分,這不僅把我打到了冰點,也讓老師對我的意見很大,她給我發出嚴正警告“這可不是開玩笑的!”

每次接樂樂放學回家時,我都看到許多同學圍著老師爭著說“再見”,然後老師都會給他們抱一抱,而樂樂都是四處搜尋著我的蹤影。看在眼裏,我感到一種莫名的壓力,我真的有許多話想對老師說,告訴她真實的樂樂是什麽樣子的,告訴她樂樂不是她想像的那樣:愛欺付人,目無老師,不思上進,無德無禮。剛好,一年級快結束時,老師給家長布置了一份作業:按照目錄上的幾個方麵給孩子做《成長手冊》。

對於這個《成長手冊》,家長們的心態各異。成績好的優秀生可以借此展示他們一年來的學習成果,各科獎狀,優秀作業,100分的試卷一抓一大把;即便成績一般,但如果你的孩子有拿得出手的才藝,也是都忙著拿出來給大家秀一下:唱歌,樂器,書法,繪畫,舞蹈,跆拳道,舞劍,主持人,講故事……但是樂樂有什麽可秀的呢? 沒有寫過一張硬筆書法練習,沒有一張工整的作業卷,更沒有一張滿分的試卷。除了反複篩選找出的語文79分,數學99分,英語100分各一張考卷外,我把樂樂在機器人班獲得的“最佳學員”獎狀也放入其中。

但是這樣一本沒什麽可炫耀的《成長手冊〉,最後卻讓班主任老師開始重新認識樂樂。這全得益於我工工整整地用手寫的十幾頁的文字。這些文字有介紹他的興趣愛好的,有通過發生在他身上的小事,反應他的內在品質與心理活動的。

我很珍惜這本以文字為主的《成長手冊》,也經常讀給樂樂聽。這些用第一人稱寫出的文字,因為語言形象生動,又代他說出了心裏話,樂樂特別喜歡聽。有時他會報以會心的微笑,有時還會咯咯地笑出聲,我覺得這才是自已真正想要的《成長手冊》。

 樂樂的成長手冊摘錄:

一次有趣的科學發現:

六月初的一天,驕陽似火。媽媽早晨將車停在學校旁邊的一個停車場後就徒步回家了。到了中午的時候,我和媽媽打開車門,一股熱浪從車內迎麵撲來。媽媽拿起放在座椅下的一袋“呀,土豆!”署條,說:“看看有什麽變化?”我說:“感覺袋子圓滾滾的像個充滿了氣的氣球一樣,隨時都要爆炸。”媽媽說:”你知道這是為什麽嗎?”我說:“空氣受熱膨脹唄!”媽媽又問:“那你有什麽辦法讓它變小嗎?”我沒有回答,隻是把空調調到了3檔,冷風呼呼地從出風口排出。我把圓滾滾的袋子湊到風口讓它吹冷風。不一會兒,圓滾滾的袋子真的像泄了氣的皮球一樣,漸漸地把大肚子縮了回去。雖然這個結果本是在我的意料之中,但我還是興奮地大叫起來“變小了!變小了!”雖然車內的空氣也是很熱,我還是要求媽媽把空調關上,把車窗打開。我把變小了的袋子放到車前玻璃下的麵板上。那兒可以受到太陽的直射,溫度比車內其它地方都高,我想看看它再變回到那個大肚子羅漢的樣子!

 

 

 

 

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魏薇 回複 悄悄話 回複 'laopika' 的評論 : 皮卡老師好!時間過得太快,印象中那事過去才沒幾年,竟一下八年了。記得加拿大,荷蘭政府強烈要求賠償,好像並沒結果。現在才知道誤擊事件發生在頓巴斯戰爭期間,飛機消失並墜毀在東烏的俄烏邊界附近,298人遇難。現在我想機上很多是烏克蘭裔的加拿大人。

看到您的新文,要想讓大家放心生,必須建立良好的生養生態係統,為家長減負。政府已經意識到這點了,所以才有各種給孩子的減負措施出台,這是好的。但減負不光是體現在育兒成本上,還應體現在安全保障成本上。希望借著全社會對二十幾年前失蹤少女李瑩的關注,可以通過立法加強對拐賣婦女兒童犯罪打擊的力度。
laopika 回複 悄悄話 馬航被擊落的凶手至今仍然逍遙法外!
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