August 11

​‘After the war had ended my friends and I continued to see the daily unfairness of life around us. Those women who led us through those years never saw rewards from what they did. The survival of the herds and the maintaining of the town was taken for granted in the aftermath of the war. Those men who found success in the post war period were the unscrupulous, the vicious and those who made their accommodations with communist party members and officials’.
 
‘Nor did the collapse of communism change the nature of success. The rewards went to a different set of the corrupt and the dishonest, and even the beneficiaries of the previous regime often became beneficiaries under its successor.

​We came to realize all too fast as we reached adulthood that the deserving do not get their rewards in their lifetime and the selfish, the ignorant and the malign do not receive their retribution either’.