Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:12:11 -0700
From: "Randy Ross" <gloreeeah-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Pshycological word games


wow .
passionate intellignet puppeteers.
you all are important and beautiful
thank you
edith
puppeteer.


On 6/19/07, Caro Stewart <papusi_marionete-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Mirjana,
>
> Yugoslavia (those times), was the gate of freedom for Romanians, who tried
> to cross the border illegally pursuing their way to West. Marshal Tito
> allowed this to happen. Indeed, your country was a heaven for us. I do have
> relatives in the western Romania and I spent summer vacations there. I was
> mesmerized watching TV channels (Romania had only 2, that ran 3 hours per
> day during the weekdays). The first TV advertisements I saw were on Serbian
> TV channels and... I loved it. My godfather was Serbian (small world :O).
> His son's name is Dragoslav!
> Religion was forbidden in Romania too. Ceausescu did not want people to
> get together to complot against him. Parties were forbidden for the same
> reason, but we still organized them :O) Cooking oil, gasoline, stove gas,
> flour, rice, potatoes and many other very important goods was rationalized.
> The lines for buying food were hundreds people long, for goods like butter,
> olives, meat, milk, cheese, citruses etc. People would fight and get hurt
> for food.
> In Bucharest was a little better. But many times, they would not have hot
> water or gas stove. The heating system was shut down...
> And then the intellectuals were heavily watched and prosecuted. Tens of
> thousands were thrown in prison, tortured and killed. My aunt had her phone
> bugged for many years and she was followed by security when traveled outside
> the country. Oh, of course, people were forbidden to travel into other
> countries, but she was a publisher who had many powerful friends in West
> (journalists and writers) and they had to let her go, otherwise her friends
> would have made this problem public. The communists did not want that.
> Romania did not have small businesses owed by people. My father worked as
> an accountant for a Mechanical State farm. Together with his manager they
> decided one year when the Farm was placed 1st between in a national
> competition held between farms, to award the workers with food for
> Christmas, because they had worked so hard to make the Farm prosperous. As a
> result of them taking such a liberty, the communist threw them into prison
> charging them with stealing form the farm in behalf of the workers (over 100
> workers). Also, my father was refusing to shake hands with the communists
> and humiliated them repeatedly with sarcastic jokes and they hated him for
> that. He was convicted 19 years and a half, but my aunt helped him to get
> out in one year and a half. The story was making headlines in 1974-75.
> The irony of the whole thing is that in year 2000, while living in Canada
> in Queen Charlotte Islands, I invited my parents to join me. My father was
> honest and declared at the Canadian Consulate that he was incarcerated.
> Although he brought documentation to prove his innocence and unfair
> incarceration also paper of acquittal of that "made up" guilt for which he
> was taken to prison, Canadians still denied entrance to my BOTH parents in
> Canada and to ALL my relatives. I was so hurt by this huge injustice done by
> the West in whose ideology we Romanians believed in, and I left Canada
> forever.
> And again, I am not in any way a nostalgic of the communist times as
> everyone can see, but it's true that puppetry was highly regarded by the
> Communist State.
>
> Hoping that I did not upset the Puptcriters with this subject not related
> enough :O) to puppetry,
>
> Caro
>
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