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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Welcome to the forum Vbekareich. I'll look forward to you reaching the 50 posts limit. You can then send me your address and I'll send you some Australian coins. I imagine you won't find many of them in Minsk.
Can you tell me a bit about your collection? What coins do you mainly like to collect, what are your interests?. Have you been collecting very long?
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09/14/2006 05:35 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I have a set of medals, probably to commemorate the 40th anniversary WWII in Belarus:       Sorry for the stuff photo - I didn't have proper lightening at that time. And no, there is no reason why you have commemorative medals / coins of the fall of bolshvism / communism. This is something I can say, as that is because you clearly have never lived in an ex-Soviet country before and have no idea what it is. Old people in particular suffer the most when they used to enjoy pension for a lot of things. Telephone bills, electricity, water, train tickets, heater during harsh winter etc are almost all free during the Soviet era, assuming if you had decent assess to them. Now they are the ones who are lamenting that the Soviet era was a lot better than now as they really do not have much to live on. Not only do they have to pay extra bills, the government is paying less pension to them and now quite a fair amount of grannies are looking for trash materials for recycling. To commemorate the fall of communism is nothing more than an insult to the older generations who worked so hard to support the economy. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hey, Vb (I hope you don't mind me calling you Vb) Thanks for your reply. Genealogy is a hobby of mine and I'm particularly interested in the conditions my forefathers endured. If you have any interest, perhaps you can do some digging on my behalf and I can compensate you in coins? Email me if interested. Gxseries, I presume that your comments were addressed to me. At the risk of taking this thread in an unpleasant direction, I'll make a brief response. quote:
This is something I can say, as that is because you clearly have never lived in an ex-Soviet country before and have no idea what it is.
I wonder why you attribute ignorance to me. Why not malice? It is true that I have never lived in an ex-Soviet country. One of my grandparents was born in Kiev. All of my great-grandparents were born in what was to become the former Soviet Union (back when it was the Tsarist "Pale of Settlement"), including Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. Actually, one was born in London, but his parents were recent emigres from Lithuania. So contrary to being ignorant, I have done a great deal of research on where they came from and why they left. It is no accident I wasn't born in the Soviet Union--and I thank my ancestors for their sacrifice on my behalf with great frequency. quote:
And no, there is no reason why you have commemorative medals / coins of the fall of bolshvism / communism.
If I'm not mistaken, Poland has seen reason to commemorate the fall of Communism and so has Germany. I would expect to see such a coin in the Czech Republic and in many other "satellite countries". So I disagree with that premise. quote:
Old people in particular suffer the most when they used to enjoy pension for a lot of things.... To commemorate the fall of communism is nothing more than an insult to the older generations who worked so hard to support the economy.
True, the elderly are particularly susceptible to changing economic conditions. This generation may have to pass before we see widespread embrace of new intellectual and economic freedom. The word "collapse" connotes hard times to follow, doesn't it? |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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There is a major difference between countries that were "taken over" during the Soviet era and those who really believed in them. Poland and Baltic States, generally satellite states and to commemorate such event is just a liberation from such. On the other hand, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine are the predominent pro Socialists.
Perhaps another few decades later down the years, it may be suitable to commemorate such events when the country prospers from economic recovery. To release them anytime soon is just nothing but insensitive to those who did work during those era.
Papers and research in my opinion do not subtitute for real experiences. I personally have been there and the situation is not anything you will see in your life. An afternoon in Moscow is probably as quiet as the evening you have there. Imagine a night at Moscow or at other cities. It's very dead and most of the people that you see are old people haggling at prices.
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Valued Member
United States
179 Posts |
Hello vbekarevich  As you are waiting for the magic 50 post milestone  so am I... When we achieve it, I would be very interested in trading US and Canadian coins for whatever you can offer...and I promise not to mention politics, holocausts, or repressisve regimes!!!!  I also have some banknotes from Indochina and former South Viet Nam, and of course the USA which I would be happy to trade for like items from your region.  I just can't help it ...I like playing with these smilies!!!  again, WELCOME Dennis  |
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Valued Member
 Belarus
65 Posts |
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Originally posted by toast
Welcome to the forum Vbekareich. I'll look forward to you reaching the 50 posts limit. You can then send me your address and I'll send you some Australian coins. I imagine you won't find many of them in Minsk.
Can you tell me a bit about your collection? What coins do you mainly like to collect, what are your interests?. Have you been collecting very long?
That\s really kind of you Thank you! |
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Valued Member
Belarus
65 Posts |
quote:
Originally posted by gxseries
I have a set of medals, probably to commemorate the 40th anniversary WWII in Belarus:
Sorry for the stuff photo - I didn't have proper lightening at that time.
And no, there is no reason why you have commemorative medals / coins of the fall of bolshvism / communism. This is something I can say, as that is because you clearly have never lived in an ex-Soviet country before and have no idea what it is.
Old people in particular suffer the most when they used to enjoy pension for a lot of things. Telephone bills, electricity, water, train tickets, heater during harsh winter etc are almost all free during the Soviet era, assuming if you had decent assess to them. Now they are the ones who are lamenting that the Soviet era was a lot better than now as they really do not have much to live on. Not only do they have to pay extra bills, the government is paying less pension to them and now quite a fair amount of grannies are looking for trash materials for recycling. To commemorate the fall of communism is nothing more than an insult to the older generations who worked so hard to support the economy.
Absolutely? Sorry If I have missed but where do you come from? You are seemed to be familiar with our world. |
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Valued Member
Belarus
65 Posts |
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Originally posted by texasmick
Hey, Vb (I hope you don't mind me calling you Vb)
Thanks for your reply. Genealogy is a hobby of mine and I'm particularly interested in the conditions my forefathers endured. If you have any interest, perhaps you can do some digging on my behalf and I can compensate you in coins? Email me if interested.
Well I can try to find something for you. You just point out for me the direction to dig. |
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Valued Member
Belarus
65 Posts |
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Valued Member
Belarus
65 Posts |
I am here again. Sorry guies for disappearing from time to time. It's all because of my work. It takes a lot of time. Now have found a minitue to call to bank. As it appears  (shame on me I didn't know) it is practically impossible to get cheap nickel coins As I was told as soon as they come they are sold within 2-3 days. Any day there will come another Will try to get a couple http://www.nbrb.by/press/?nId=330 |
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Valued Member
Belarus
65 Posts |
So now I can only help with the coins of my neiboughs - Ukrain, Russia, Lithuania and Soviets and some other. Thouhg Belarusians silver are more available but need to be checked
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Valued Member
Belarus
65 Posts |
last week was in Ukrain. Frankly speaking for me to get the coins was the main goal - the buisness trip was cover. But to my shame again I missed the time and the National bank was closed...
will tell the rest tomorrow must go
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Valued Member
Belarus
65 Posts |
I was running about Kiev like crasy to find the right bank to buy coins. Finally I managed to buy three cupronickel commems thought it took them 40 minutes to process a pile of papers. I was sweatering off like I was buying a kilogram of gold there.  Especially I am upset that I didn\t managed to get proof set of circulated coins. Hopefully my next trip to Ukrain I'll do my best. |
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Valued Member
Belarus
65 Posts |
Sorry for appearing and disappearing at the forum all the time but my work is so that I am really short of time and can't stay at the forum sometime for days. At home I can\t even look at the computer  so tired of it at work. |
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Valued Member
United States
179 Posts |
Hi vbekarevich, Don't worry about popping in and out, most of us seem to do it from time to time...unfortunately, there are always other priorities in life that demand some of most of our time. One nice thing about this forum is there are no demands for participation...just when you can, where you can so relax, and enjoy...I personally find it a very relaxing place, until my wife prods me to get away from the computer!!! Hang in there, you are close to the big 50 Since I have achieved it I have "met" some very nice people trading, looking forward to the same with you. Dennis |
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