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deskware7
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 Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject: Babushkas |
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| What makes a woman a babushka? Is it her age, income level, lifestyle or something else? I see the term "babushka" sometimes in Russian writings and wondered about its meaning. |
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Camrade
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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age 
old lady = babushka
also babushka means grandmother |
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Jutrzenkapolska
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Also a name of a wooden doll.
A babushka also usually dresses in flower prints, drinks morning till night, scares the bejesus out of passing children and meets with other babushkas to 1) trade war stories 2) agree that things actually weren't so bad under socialism. 
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Katyara
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| Some babushkas are really mean. They pretend to live under socialism and growl at teenagers and kids. I have one in my house. She is cussing at people all the time and she stinks, 'cause she doesn't take a bath for like weeks, or maybe she just doesn't wash her clothes. Well, anyway, not all babushkas are like that. There some pretty cool ones. Like my grandmother and most of my friends' grandmothers, they are all pretty funny and awesome. |
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Slava45
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | ..... scares the bejesus out of passing children and meets with other babushkas to 1) trade war stories 2) agree that things actually weren't so bad under socialism. |
If there are any babushkas living in your house... or a friends house ect, and they meet with other babushkas to trade war stories please, listen to what they have to say in fact write it down. Many of those who lived during the great patriotic war are not alive now, or wont be for much longer. Dont let their history and the country's history be lost with that generation.  |
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Katyara
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| I somehow agree, but you know how boring it is to listen to the war stories when you are 16??? Sometimes it is pretty interesting, but it is more interesting to go out with friends anyway! |
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| Jutrzenkapolska wrote: | | A babushka usually drinks morning till night, scares the bejesus out of passing children and meets with other babushkas to agree that things actually weren't so bad under socialism. |
Caniche-na... but alot are rather ordinary senior citizens too... and if they talk of socialism it's only because THEY were far better off under THAT regime... you should bear in mind the current events regards benefits and pension reforms which affect Russian pensioners...  |
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Well, actually, I confess I loved listening to my grandmother and her friends talk about life during the war.My granny is a good storyteller,one and two, her war story is amazing.
She was my age when Germany invaded Poland and her father and older sister were killed.The war forced her to drop out of high school and hold two jobs to be the sole breadwinner for her family.She had a job in the ticket booth at the Warsaw railroad, so she was there at the first shipment of Jews to Treblinka.As an eye-witness, of course.Unbelievable. |
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Katyara
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| My grandmother is a good storyteller too. But she doesn't tell sories that often, she is more of a... how to phrase it... modern grandmother... I don't know... she just doesn't tell stories... She might tell me something about my childhood, when I was 1 or 2, but other than that she doesn't really tell stories. |
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| Katyara wrote: | | I somehow agree, but you know how boring it is to listen to the war stories when you are 16??? Sometimes it is pretty interesting, but it is more interesting to go out with friends anyway! |
I understand that, but you should really appreciate the presence and experience of your grand parents while they are still alive, Kat. They have been going thru very harsh times, and their experience might be of use all your life long...I wish I still had mine around
Added after reading your last post : take the initiative, ask her about her own past... |
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| vorteks wrote: | | I understand that, but you should really appreciate the presence and experience of your grand parents while they are still alive, Kat. They have been going thru very harsh times, and their experience might be of use all your life long...I wish I still had mine around |
From the man without a father of his own...  |
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Katyara
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| Thanx. I appreciate my grand parents very much. |
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cyndy22
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| My Devushka, (grand father) died when I was 9. Of course I was just a child, but it is sad that I know so very little about his life in Belarus where he was born and lived until coming to US. Even my dad is in the dark. And the fact that he was an orphan doesn't help. So I agree that there are experiences and information that grand parents have, and let's face it- their lives were more difficult than ours. It's nice to know these things so your family can retain some pretty amazing stories not to mention that you will come to understand your grand parents better, as real people who have had very incredible life experiences. |
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Jutrzenkapolska
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| Yeah,I know what you mean.Both of my grandfathers died when I was a toddler, don't remember either one. One of my grandfathers was also a teenage war survivor and later went on to survive a Soviet prison and labor camp but unlike his wife, categorically refused to talk about any of the experiences and generally kept it secret.Well, that was his right. |
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| Quote: | | My Devushka, (grand father) |
you've made a mistake only in one letter and got 'girlfriend' instead of grandfather
grandfather is deDushka )[/b] |
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