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(2022-03-05 17:42:26) 下一个

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. 

一则加拿大拥有除乌克兰和俄罗斯外的世界第三大Ukrainians community的信息,让我想到了发生在2014年的一起空难。在那空难中,一架马航客机MH17在乌克兰境内坠毁,造成机上二百多人全部丧生的惨剧。后经荷兰组成的第三方调查组调查,得出飞机是被俄制导弹击中的结论。听说乘客当中有五十几名加拿大公民,当时不明白为什么。现在明白了。

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乐乐的一年级

  七岁时乐乐准备上小学一年级了。报名的那天,我忙着填写各种表格,乐乐则一直躲在一根大柱子后面观察着为周围的一切。后来乐乐被一位漂亮的女老师带到二楼谈话,我不可以跟上去。乐乐被带上楼的时候,我看到他的眼泪从眼底冒了出来。我真为乐乐捏把汗,怕因为他不跟老师交流,而不能被录取。等乐乐乖乖地被那位漂亮女老师牵着手从楼上下来时,乐乐的眼泪不见了,他被录取了,我高兴极了!我没有问乐乐刚才和老师在一起时发生的事情,只是想:一定是这位漂亮女老师的笑容让飞没那么紧张了,要是以后她能当乐乐的老师该多好啊!

第一天背着书包去上学了,乐乐感到很兴奋。这里的教室与幼儿园时的不一样,桌椅一排排,一列列将整个教室挤得满满的。第一排桌子紧贴着老师的讲台桌。两人一桌,他被安排到与一位长着机灵眼睛的小女生一桌。

乐乐的班主任是位四十岁左右的女老师,她姓林,既是班主任又是语文老师,数学老师正是那位漂亮的女老师,她姓谢,为此,我还着实高兴了一阵。但仅仅一周的时间,因为不睡午觉,还说话扣了班里的纪律分,班主任就通知我:中午乐乐不可以在学校吃饭和午休了。数学老师因为他上课走神,做小动作而把我叫到学校两次,婉转地让她带乐乐去检查一下身体,看看是不是体内缺少什么,而影响他的行为。

一年级的乐乐是个不招老师喜欢,完全让老师头痛的孩子。班主任对他的评价是:目无组织纪律,不和老师讲话,上课不守纪律,还爱捉弄同学。学校在一年级的两个假期还专门对一些课堂听讲差的孩子进行训练。两次都有乐乐的份儿。但三天,六个上午的训练过后,在老师的鼓励与棒棒糖的激励下,老师发现他最多也只能是保持15分钟的合格课堂听讲状态。

专注力差直接就影响了他的成绩,开学后一个月的第一次拼音小测他得了38分,这不仅把我打到了冰点,也让老师对我的意见很大,她给我发出严正警告“这可不是开玩笑的!”

每次接乐乐放学回家时,我都看到许多同学围着老师争着说“再见”,然后老师都会给他们抱一抱,而乐乐都是四处搜寻着我的踪影。看在眼里,我感到一种莫名的压力,我真的有许多话想对老师说,告诉她真实的乐乐是什么样子的,告诉她乐乐不是她想像的那样:爱欺付人,目无老师,不思上进,无德无礼。刚好,一年级快结束时,老师给家长布置了一份作业:按照目录上的几个方面给孩子做《成长手册》。

对于这个《成长手册》,家长们的心态各异。成绩好的优秀生可以借此展示他们一年来的学习成果,各科奖状,优秀作业,100分的试卷一抓一大把;即便成绩一般,但如果你的孩子有拿得出手的才艺,也是都忙着拿出来给大家秀一下:唱歌,乐器,书法,绘画,舞蹈,跆拳道,舞剑,主持人,讲故事……但是乐乐有什么可秀的呢? 没有写过一张硬笔书法练习,没有一张工整的作业卷,更没有一张满分的试卷。除了反复筛选找出的语文79分,数学99分,英语100分各一张考卷外,我把乐乐在机器人班获得的“最佳学员”奖状也放入其中。

但是这样一本没什么可炫耀的《成长手册〉,最后却让班主任老师开始重新认识乐乐。这全得益于我工工整整地用手写的十几页的文字。这些文字有介绍他的兴趣爱好的,有通过发生在他身上的小事,反应他的内在品质与心理活动的。

我很珍惜这本以文字为主的《成长手册》,也经常读给乐乐听。这些用第一人称写出的文字,因为语言形象生动,又代他说出了心里话,乐乐特别喜欢听。有时他会报以会心的微笑,有时还会咯咯地笑出声,我觉得这才是自已真正想要的《成长手册》。

 乐乐的成长手册摘录:

一次有趣的科学发现:

六月初的一天,骄阳似火。妈妈早晨将车停在学校旁边的一个停车场后就徒步回家了。到了中午的时候,我和妈妈打开车门,一股热浪从车内迎面扑来。妈妈拿起放在座椅下的一袋“呀,土豆!”署条,说:“看看有什么变化?”我说:“感觉袋子圆滚滚的像个充满了气的气球一样,随时都要爆炸。”妈妈说:”你知道这是为什么吗?”我说:“空气受热膨胀呗!”妈妈又问:“那你有什么办法让它变小吗?”我没有回答,只是把空调调到了3档,冷风呼呼地从出风口排出。我把圆滚滚的袋子凑到风口让它吹冷风。不一会儿,圆滚滚的袋子真的像泄了气的皮球一样,渐渐地把大肚子缩了回去。虽然这个结果本是在我的意料之中,但我还是兴奋地大叫起来“变小了!变小了!”虽然车内的空气也是很热,我还是要求妈妈把空调关上,把车窗打开。我把变小了的袋子放到车前玻璃下的面板上。那儿可以受到太阳的直射,温度比车内其它地方都高,我想看看它再变回到那个大肚子罗汉的样子!

 

 

 

 

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魏薇 回复 悄悄话 回复 'laopika' 的评论 : 皮卡老师好!时间过得太快,印象中那事过去才没几年,竟一下八年了。记得加拿大,荷兰政府强烈要求赔偿,好像并没结果。现在才知道误击事件发生在顿巴斯战争期间,飞机消失并坠毁在东乌的俄乌边界附近,298人遇难。现在我想机上很多是乌克兰裔的加拿大人。

看到您的新文,要想让大家放心生,必须建立良好的生养生态系统,为家长减负。政府已经意识到这点了,所以才有各种给孩子的减负措施出台,这是好的。但减负不光是体现在育儿成本上,还应体现在安全保障成本上。希望借着全社会对二十几年前失踪少女李莹的关注,可以通过立法加强对拐卖妇女儿童犯罪打击的力度。
laopika 回复 悄悄话 马航被击落的凶手至今仍然逍遥法外!
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