#Yalta vacation

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When the Red Army entered Korea in early August, 1945, heavy battles took place in the north, but the Japanese rule remained tranquil in the south, for the Russians stopped by the Yalta agreement at the 38th parallel, while the Americans came several weeks after the surrender of Japan, and ruled at first through the Japanese and then through the Japanese-appointed Korean officials and police. So naturally all of the pro-Japanese Koreans – former police and officials, landlords and stockholders in Japanese companies – fled south to the American zone. The flight of all these right-wing elements amazingly simplified North Korean politics. The Russians did not have to set up any left-wing government, assuming that they wanted one. They merely set free some ten thousand political prisoners and said, by implication; “Go home, boys, you’re free to organize.” Under Japanese rule all natural political leaders either served Japan or went to jail. With the pro-Japanese gone, the ex-jailbirds became the vindicated heroes of their home towns. They were all radicals of sorts, including many Communists. Anyone who knows what a tremendous reception was given to Tom Mooney when he was released to come home to the workers of San Francisco, may imagine the effect on the small towns and villages when ten thousand of these political martyrs came home. North Korea just naturally took a great swing leftwards, and the Russians had only to recognize “the choice of the Korean people.” People’s Committees sprang up in villages, counties, and provinces and coalesced into a provisional government under the almost legendary guerrilla leader Kim Il Sung. Farmers organized, demanded the land from the landlords and got it in twenty-one days by a government decree. (Compared to the land reforms of other countries, this sounds like a tale of Aladdin’s lamp!) Ninety per cent of all big industry – it had belonged to Japanese concerns – was handed over by the Russians “to the Korean people” and nationalized by one more decree. Trade unions organized, demanded a modern labor code, and got it without any trouble from their new government, with the eight-hour day, abolition of child labor, and social insurance all complete. Another decree made women equal with men in all spheres of activity and another expanded schools. Then general elections were held and a “democratic front” of three parties swept unopposed to power. The natural opposition had all gone south, to be sheltered – and put in power – by the Americans. This is the, reason, I think, for the almost exaggerated sense of “people’s power” that the North Koreans express. Their real class struggle is coming; it hasn’t fully hit them yet. The reactionaries all fled south, where they are bloodily suppressing strikes. In North Korea the farmers are building new houses and buying radios because they no longer pay land rent, while the workers are taking vacations in former Japanese villas. The North Koreans assume that this is just what naturally happens when once you are a “liberated land.” “They aren’t yet liberated down south,” they told me. “The Americans let those pro-Japanese traitors stay in power.”

In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Reports, Anna Louise Strong, 1949

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A bus with vacation-makers sets on the 1600km route from Kyiv to Yalta, Crimea, 1962

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I've been watching this a bit obscure period drama that's on Dailymotion only, and there was a minor character who was a Jewish emigrant from Novgorod. And since I'm a nitpicky nerd, I immediately thought: Wait, Novgorod wasn't within the Pole of Settlement, was it?

So, I went on an hour long Google ride trying to check if that character could've come from Novgorod, and in the process, I accidentally found out that in the late XIXth century the Tzar family developed a habit of spending their summer vacations in Yalta. Because of that, Alexander II, the massive asshole that he was, decided that his family could not possibly be in the same town with the Jews for a few weeks a year, so he ordered to kick the Jewish population, including the indigenous Krymchaks and Crimean Karaites, out of their homes.

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Currently Reading January 2023

How to Pray, by Fr. James Martin - I got this for Christmas last year and still haven't started it yet. It's slowly making its way to the top of the TBR pile.

The Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis - one of my coworkers loaned this to me and I should probably get it back to him soon.

The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War - impulse buy at the library book sale.

Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines: The Unknown Heroines of World War Two by Sally Van Wagenen Keil - Another impulse buy at the library.

Currently Watching All Creatures Great and Small, Season 3 (PBS) - War is looming for Darrowby's favorite vets and James and Helen are being adorable newlyweds. This show continues to be like a warm hug.

Vikings Valhalla, Season 2 (Netflix) - I was trying to space this one out after it started while I was on vacation, but now I'm on episode 5.

Les Combattantes (Netflix) - Women in World War One. Sometimes a show is written specifically for me.

Just Finished

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson - a novel (memoir?) told entirely in poetry. This was a pick for bookclub and it was great. Would highly recommend.

Hemingway and Gellhorn (2012, HBOMax) - I'm not entirely sure why I turned this on. Maybe it was my weakness for Clive Owen. Anyway, this is several hours of my life that I can't get back BUT it make a nice backdrop from which to launch into Mackrell's book. I still can't stand Hemingway.

The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II, by Judith Mackrell - a very nice overview of 6 of the war's most high profile authors. Taken in conjunction with Hemingway/Gellhorn and the upcoming Lee Miller biopic, a real good read.

SAS: Rogue Heroes (2023, MGM+) - a show so fun I told my therapist I think I needed more 'fuck it, do it anyway' energy. Not exactly fabulous history, or female representation, but a really, really fun soundtrack and a lot of things going boom.

SAS: Rogue Heroes, by Ben Macintyre - an impulse buy while I was on vacation because I'd just finished the TV show. The show's a pretty good adaptation, though I take some issues with David Stirling's characterization.

Domina ( MGM+) - I gave up on this after the timeskip in the fourth episode. Really wasn't expanding my understanding of Livia Drusilla and post-Caesar Rome.

Belgravia (2020, MGM+) - Kind of glad I skipped this (and the book) when it originally came out, but it filled a hole for a couple of evenings.

The Man from UNCLE (2015) - finally watched this movie and can understand why people like it so much.

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Крым (Ялта) в 1995 году на фото Мартина Парра (Martin Parr)

In the summer of 1995 the British photographer Martin Parr, traveled to Yalta, he had for himself called the “Russian Riviera.” And in this series, you will see all the variety, which could offer the tourist Yalta almost three decades ago – the Crimean beaches, noise waterfront girls topless, giving Brezhnev, local bandits, pensions and sedate family vacation. In Parr’s images we can almost…

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Ялта, Пляаж Yalta, Ukrainian SSR

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Отпуск в Крыму / Crimean vacations 1. Санаторий Лазурный берег 2. Центр космической связи в посёлке Школьное 3. Троллейбусный парк в Ялте 4. Грязелечебница Мойнаке в Евпатории 5. Заводская библиотека в Керчи 6. Санаторий Дружба близ Ялты 7. На лестнице санатория в Алуште 8. Центр космической связи под Евпаторией 9. Проходная завода в Севастополе 10. Перед сном в Джанкое 1. Sanatorium Lazurniy Bereg 2. Space Communications Center in the village of Shkolnoye 3. Trolleybus Park in Yalta 4. Mud cure clinic Moynake in Evpatoria 5. The factory library in Kerch 6. Sanatorium Druzhba near Yalta 7. The staircase of the sanatorium in Alushta 8. Space Communication Center near Evpatoria 9. Entrance of the factory in Sevastopol 10. Before going to bed in Dzhankoy

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The Lady with the Dog - Reaction

          My main thoughts about this story are that I dislike Dmitri and feel pity for Anna. The setting of Yalta seems beautiful and idyllic. Most importantly, it imbues a sense of romance. If it were not for its small-town quality and stunning scenery, Anna and Dmitri would probably never meet nor grow attached to each other. Anna seems to be adventurous and driven for a better and more interesting life. She is fairly young; Dmitri describes that “only a very short time ago she had been a schoolgirl, like his own daughter,” which is a bit disturbing.  Dmitri, on the other hand, seems like the type of man who refuses to face how old he really is and acts like an adolescent; he sleeps around with women, neglects his wife, and goes on vacation to Yalta for his own pleasure. His low view of women is also very despicable, especially when he comments that the lace trimming of the underwear of several women he slept with “reminded him of fish-scales,” which dehumanizes them. 

          What I do love about this story, however, is the idea that both Dmitri and Anna feel stifled by their lives, therefore they are both drawn to one another. I like that Chekhov’s writing is straightforward and neutral, although I personally prefer writing that has more emotion or wit. I know other similar stories about married people falling in love with each other, but this one is interesting because of its setting in Ukraine. It is despondent to read how Anna clearly thinks little of herself; she feels repulsed by herself after having sex with Dmitri, lamenting that she’s a “wicked, fallen woman” who despises herself. I just hope that, either Anna finds happiness on her own, or that Dmitri ends up with Anna as a changed and matured man who genuinely cares and wants to be better for her, despite that he is generally wont to commit infidelity.

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