RE: [Cz-L] If we didnt go

Serah..that trip sounds like a total nightmare! Look up Carpatair on
Google,they fly from many European airports to their hub in Timisoara where
you change planes...takes about 30 mins...and fly to Czernowitz to the
recently renovated terminal.And about 10 minutes ago I phoned a friend in
Czernowitz,to be told that law and order still exist,that since the nearby
Soviet-era factories closed down there is no airpollution and the fresh food
tastes better! A lot of the locals work in Europe now and send back
money...which they could not do before. I was also emphatically told that
the only ones who yearn for "the old times" are the ex-apparatchiks of that
regime. It seems to me that positives outweigh the negatives. Another
point...when I went back many years ago the streets had some clapped-out
Russian cars. Now...full of new and shiny Mercedes and other western and
Japanese cars...not the evidence of a totally poor society. Yes,there are
still the babushkas selling at the footpath,but there are also shops with
the latest gadgets etc. Cornel

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Greenberg [mailto:grs_software_at_bigpond.com]
Sent: 19 January 2013 13:37
To: cornel fleming
Cc: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] If we didnt go

Cornel,

I went back in 2006 for my school reunion. We flew with El Al from Tel Aviv
to Kiev and then hired a minibus, The roads were a nightmare, worse than in
Soviet times. We didn't want to go through that experience again so we took
a plane from Cz. Both planes and trains are now worse than in Soviet times.
Dirty, old and dangerous.

Why people who still live there miss the Soviet times? In Soviet times there

was law, order. jobs, pensions, well equipped hospitals and vacations. And
there was a huge, energetic Jewish population. And if you kept your mouth
shut, there was no Siberian exile after Stalin was gone. It's all over now.
No jobs, no money, mo Jews, no energy. My contacts in Cz are lost and lonely

people.

I am not being nostalgic and I don't miss Cz. but I have immigrated twice
(to Israel and to Australia) and I know what price individuals pay leaving
so much behind.. I don't blame people who decided to stay. They still walked

on familiar streets of Czernowitz and could still hear Yiddish and German
spoken on the streets.
I grew up in a very romantic though in a very undemocratic place. I think
that I know more about the essence of Cz. that people who left at the age of

eight.

I've never heard about Carpatair. Where do they fly from?
Serah

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