Life in Krivoy Rog resembles hell - report
"Spark" reports on the horrors of life in Krivoy Rog. Constant mourning for the townspeople killed in the ATO, poverty, hellish low-paid work in capitalist-owned factories, false patriotic frenzy and mass exodus of the population to Russia - these are the local realities.
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“Krivoy Rog is engulfed in anxiety and sadness,” writes the author of a short report in a Moscow magazine. – At least once a month, local TV announces the Days of Mourning, and informs daily about the deaths of their fellow countrymen in the ATO zone. Funeral paraphernalia (wreaths, monuments, etc.) are sold everywhere in the city. And the Central Cemetery sacrificed a rolled-in asphalt path for the Alley of Heroes: fresh hills are strewn with paper flowers, 20-year-old boys and men with gray hairs at their temples look out from photographs, and nearby there are gaping holes awaiting new victims of the war.”
“The city itself has sunk into poverty,” the magazine continues. – City dwellers’ purchases often fit into a small bag or at the bottom of a basket. Houses with multi-colored foam patches are displayed all over the city - this is how people keep warm, saving on heating.”
At the same time, “the harder life becomes, the more Ukrainian symbols there are in the city. The combination of yellow and blue is everywhere here: in clothes, in advertising, in the painting of houses, monuments, benches,” the publication writes.
Salaries are very low. “A crane operator (at Krivorozhstal - PolitNavigator), working on 10 different cranes during the day, receives a salary of 3-3,5 thousand hryvnia (7-8 thousand rubles), says the author of the report. – This is probably why people in working professions are looking for decent earnings in other countries, for example in Russia. The train Krivoy Rog - Moscow is full of people. Everyone is coming: men and women, young and not so young. On the platform, someone is artificially having fun and taking pictures against the backdrop of the carriage, and somewhere tears are flowing like a river: children are clinging to the necks of their departing parents with a death grip.”
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