She can and should judge all she wants. But judgment is all it is.
If she's dead or imprisoned how will she support her family in either Ukraine or Russia or Italy? Shindler didn't advertise his good deeds either. He hid them in plain sight. Sometimes its better to work smarter rather than harder.
There is absolutely no reason to suppose that she would be killed or imprisoned simply for not taking part in these shows. You are making up specious hypotheticals.
Oh, so now Volosozhar has turned into a secret savior of Ukrainians
I agree totally
I agree...the less attention on them the safer they are. Sincere thoughts and prayers
No need to remind everyone this is a really stupid whataboutism that has been brought up in here a gazillion frigging times. WTF were you doing then? A lot of us were in the streets every weekend getting assaulted by cops in riot gear. We were not going on "USA **** Yeah" tours for money. GTFO already with this.
Do you have kids Airgelaal? For the exception of a few psychopaths, parents are parents wherever they are from and wherever they live. Their own children will always come first, even at the detriment of other kids. It's a deep-rooted natural instinct. That doesn't mean I do not understand your thinking, considering your situation. But I have a hard time picturing a whole nation choosing its comfort over its children
No I do not have children. But Ukrainian parents chose to fight for the future of their children. Although they could also sit comfortably on the couch and watch how Ukraine turns into a second russia. You and I have different understandings of what it means to love children. If russian parents believe that such a russia is the best that their children can have, then I have nothing to say.Do you have kids Airgelaal? For the exception of a few psychopaths, parents are parents wherever they are from and wherever they live. Their own children will always come first, even at the detriment of other kids. It's a deep-rooted natural instinct. That doesn't mean I do not understand your thinking, considering your situation. But I have a hard time picturing a whole nation choosing its comfort over its children
My "understanding of what it means to love children", unlike yours, is certainly not to put into question and this is a very dangerous territory to venture into as it implies I'm a bad mother and it is very close to an insult. As a mother of an only child who unfortunately died, I'm in the right place to know a lot about loving children. For instance, I would have done absolutely anything to save him, including giving my own life or taking the life of someone else. Many years later, I'd still do it if it could bring him back. I will never ever get over this. The love I have for him and his absence are pains I suffer every single day. I of course understand your anger and your hatred towards Russian people but lumping them all as monsters who are not even able to love their kids isn't going to help you. In my original post, I wasn't talking especially about skaters and/or Tatiana V. but about Russians in general. I've been a volunteer in Kosovo, I was in two different countries during civil wars, and I have never ever seen anyone choosing their "comfort" over the well being of their children. Their idea of their well-being may be wrong but it's a very difficult thing to define. When you are a parent, you always try to do your best for your children, and sometimes you're wrong, you fail. It does not mean you don't love them. Being a parent is a complex and risky task. Nobody knows what Russia will be in the future. Moving abroad is not something easy to do, whatever the situation is. You don't leave your country as you bat an eyelid, even when you totally disagree with the nutcase who rules it. And sometimes you don't even bother to disagree. It's coward, true, but humans are cowards, you don't need to be Russian to be one. And when children are involved, you tend make even less waves because you don't know what tomorrow will bring you. Perfect people mostly live in movies and books. In real life, they don't exist. There is a reason why I turned into some kind of hermit after Kosovo. Nobody wants to know what humans are able to inflict to each others. Once you know, well, it doesn't paint a nice picture of us all. But it's dark enough without adding to the picture with flaws most people don't have.
I sympathize with your loss and it's probably great to see only the best in people, as in yourself. But, unfortunately, the reality is very often quite different.
Could you take this into another thread? Or have a conversation through messages? I am getting a bit fed up with this bullshit. This is a skating forum, not a forum about parenting. There are other threads about the war, could we have at least some about skating?
Link? And I would guess there are some local retailers of standard brands (but I guess they probably import them from elsewhere)?
Link for the article TAHbKA mentioned...
We’ll let TAHбKA handle. I was just trying to help with a large Russian ballet shoes/etc site.
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Thanks, learned that Russia has imposed new rules on the procurement of foreign goods to oppose the sanctions.Балерины Большого театра остались без пуантов из-за санкций
В России производство качественных пуантов так и не наладили.
Thanks for the information.
With all due respect your anger is misplaced. Tanya and Max are not responsible for this war. You may as well rant about every Russian. Your anger should be placed on your own President Z. He it appears to me is being used as a pawn of the USA and the rest of the West. It was in his power years ago when he weighed the pros and cons of this action to avoid this war. Anyone who goes to war with a mad man is just as responsible for what we now have. Who deliberately pokes a bear?
Right, my answer is that I don't know. I am just saying that it'll inevitably be much simpler for ballet dancers when they can perform with different dance styles, which don't need their specialized shoes. Not possible for skaters. Basically owning up to my lack of knowledge on this.
