2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
There is no alien sun, here Mikhail Isakovsky went too far with patriotism. The sun above all the heads of our blue planet is one. And about the Turkish coast and Africa, I agree with him. Of course, today, when any Russian can see the world with his own eyes without unnecessary problems and close attention to his person from a small group of "worthy" citizens, it is not worth depriving oneself of such cognitive pleasure. After all, only your own experience will help you make the right choice. In the end, the Creator, having created man, gave him water and land expanses completely free of charge. And the borders and wars for these open spaces were invented by the man himself
Bouquets from childhood
When I was a child, we did not have a summer residence. A neighbor's boy gave me modest bouquets of flowers, after Sunday visits with his parents to their country garden on six acres of land. They were not called dachas at that time. The scent of the flowers was not like the scent of a flower bed in the courtyard of our house, which we took care of ourselves. There was more freshness and a sense of freedom in him.
Looking at the neighbors (or peasant roots reminded of themselves), my parents decided to take six acres (they did not give more then) and planted vegetables, herbs and a bed of strawberries. Being a very domestic child, I did not like going to pioneer camps. Actually, I was there only once, but the feeling of loneliness and abandonment that I experienced there remained in my memory for the rest of my life. Therefore, I was very happy with the new acquisition of my parents and was ready to weed the beds from morning till night, so long as they did not send me to the pioneer camp.
Second coming to the country land
The return to the village, to the land, happened when their own children grew up and there was more free time. Now I will not trade my ugly house in the village for either the Turkish coast or the Maldives.
Young people do not share my views on the land, but they periodically come to the evening gatherings by the fire with kebabs and beer. At the same time, the grass is mowed in order to at least get to the toilet without stepping on an uninvited snake. Sometimes such black and nimble vipers creep in. They are at ease in the village: out of a hundred courtyards, fifteen to twenty percent stand with boarded up windows and doors, with vegetable gardens overgrown with weeds and nettles. A maximum of ten yards overwinter in the village. The rest are seasonal summer residents.
The advantage of our village is its dead-end location. The nearest village with a post office, an elementary school and a tiny shop is separated by ten kilometers of dirt road, along which not every car will pass through muddy roads. And on the other side of the village are the mountains of the Altai Territory and the river running along the mountains. Therefore, "random" people almost do not wander over to us, and if someone does appear, they will immediately be distinguished from "their own."
Due to this location, people in the village lock their doors when they leave for the city, putting the key right there "under the rug" or hanging it on the doorframe of the porch. Things are not taken to the city for the winter. They just put mattresses, blankets, pillows on tables so that mice do not gnaw in winter. Such is a separate communist Paradise in a long-suffering country.
What attracts the village
Today, the Turkish coast is a popular holiday destination for Russians. People go there to swim in the sea, surprise friends with a bronze tan, get acquainted with a culture that is unlike ours, see sights familiar from pictures of textbooks and books. They go for seven or fourteen days, and then return home and understand that there is nothing better than "the roof of their own house" in this world.
Let the rooftops of the houses and "all the amenities" in the courtyard be unsightly; the road slides after the rain and drags the car into a ditch; but how delightful is the air of dachas and villages, and the expanses are immense and picturesque.
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