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Alex Mumzhui with his Brompton on Silk Route to China.

Silk Road

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-20 17:44:21

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the live music is produced by violin is still the same. However, the violinist who always was an old Jew, now is not a Jew. All Odessian Jews probably moved to the Brighton beach, New York, where they form a "Little Odessa". Really, I did not see any Jewish faces in Odessa. Odessa without Jews- unbelievable. What the generations of anti-Semites were unable to achieve was achieved by the freedom of emigration. But will the Brighton Beach produce the same amount of world class writers, poets and musicians as Odessa did. I doubt about it. Only atmosphere of oppression and discrimination which forces Jews to work very hard to became the best of the best were able to produce them. An American freedom and equality will not do it. I went on 1 hour boat ride around the Odessa port. It was about the same route which my friend Vladislav D. and I did 30 years ago in order to test drive our folding canoe with the sail on which we plan to sail around the Black Sea. It was really brave endeavour, because even floating on inflatable mattress were considered as an attempt to sail to Turkey. We sail around Odessa sea port in front of oceanic ships leaving and entering the port and nobody stopped us, because nobody expect such strange and risky behaviour. In the evening we came to the shore and landed next to the boarder guards station where we were immediately arrested along with our craft. We were released later and came to my grand mother home without canoe. The canoe was released few days later and guards advised us to sail on internal Azov sea. We did, but were arrested again, not in that year trip, a coupe years later and in different company with Urii K.

Incredible story which happened with me on the Golden Ring near Moscow.

A lady from my college lives in one of these small cities which form Golden Ring. She worked as an engineer at the same plant to which she was assigned after graduation from the college. Now retired she survives on $30 ...