Walking Igor gives an opportunity to meet interesting people. I do not know persons names - I know dog's names. But irrespective a lack of formal introductions, conversations with these people give me interesting insights.
This morning I spoke with a lady who walks Cubic - a 9 year old schnauzer. She is in her late 60ties and is a retired biologist-zoologist. Today she told me how happy she is the Soviet Union fall apart. She is very happy her children had an opportunity to have a world open to them. She told me how as a zoologist she spent time with her husband in Kuril's Islands. From one of the islands she could see over to Japan and watch Japanese cars, roads, houses... She described the frustration of sensing there is a different world outside USSR - which she could not and was forbidden to experience. Once USSR fell apart she and her family immediately started to travel. Her daughter lives in Germany. Her son is in Sweden. She is strongly convinced people - even with current economic hardships - overall live better now - because there is a freedom of movement and freedom of speech. How true: ultimately the level of freedom determines our quality of life.
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