The Absolutely Horrible Hot Trail (History of Christmas)

I wanted to tell this story for a long time, but I didn’t get my hand. Suddenly I realized that it was directly related to the New Year and the
Christmas and what to tell about it today.

I was taken to Tel Aviv for my birthday to a former classmate.
It turned out that a fellow student lives in a beautiful green neighborhood with beautiful houses, as I was told, in the style of "bidermeier". Look at the photo on
http://world.lib.ru/b/b_a/pictureweekly.shtml and fix if I am confused. We have not seen each other for 20 years. They stumbled on each other’s shoulders and watched a tremendous change. In the meantime, a man of low growth approaches us. The name asks:
Do you remember Lulu? I looked – really Cole – and immediately remembered.

To enter the University of Kharkiv, Kolya came from a very deaf province, from a tiny town in Sumy, and from the village. I entered and settled in the dormitory. He had no problems with his studies. But neither with the hostels nor with the locals. Although in different ways, but both of them were for him, a serious man, a breakdown. But he co-worked with Vietnamese students who lived in the same hostel. In classes, in the library and on the street, the Vietnamese always held a group. Cole with them. He was not very outstanding on the outside - just as small and subtle. When he began to praise the fried silk, the public understood that the matter went a long way, but how far nobody guessed.

Vietnamese comrades had a wonderful custom. Once a week they held a meeting and, among other things, alternately told about their bad actions over the past period. At one such gathering, a young Vietnamese woman accused her not only of falling in love with Kolya, but also of giving in to his harassment. She told frankly and without distant circumstances how Uncle Ho taught the youth. The details were as intricate as the surrounding life. It all happened during the New Year’s Eve, in an empty audience, on a wide window. Asked why she went there, the girl explained that they wanted to admire the snowed square of Dzerzhinsky from the thirteenth floor. The square was really beautiful. The rest happened as if by itself.

The Vietnamese were immediately expelled home. Colla was immediately expelled from the Vietnamese community. But the case was not limited to this. Whenever Kohl was in the sight of the Vietnamese, they stopped, stretched out their pointing fingers toward the tempting serpent, and cried out loudly, "How embarrassing! It is no shame!” Then Cole disappeared. I heard from someone that he was transferred to Dnipropetrovsk University.

Therefore, shaking Colin’s hand, I could only ask:
How are you? Recognizing the guilt? Not ashamed?
Cole was still a serious man. He did not even smile. He looked at me disapprovingly and said:
I’m not ashamed, I’m married to her. And he called, Lin, come
Please come to us!
A weak, intelligent Vietnamese woman arrived. Colin introduced us to each other. We exchanged some official words. I could hardly wait until we stayed together and asked:
You are not joking?
What a joke. It was fun for you, and I was occupied by the KGB. Shiley
The division of the socialist camp. They threatened me and wanted me to knock.
I went home to my mother, and she said, “My father, and your grandfather like you.”
Many old Bolsheviks were married to a Jewish woman. I am a Jew and you.
The Jew. Go to Israel, there you will not be rested. shall be
As my grandfather did. I have gone. I was sent to study Hebrew in Ulpan.
Kfar Geladi in northern Israel. I came there as I remember now.
In the evening of January 6. I go to dinner. Everything is foreign and all foreign. I entered
I eat and see Lin. Isn’t it a miracle? Her story was something.
Similar to mine. Her grandfather once travelled around the world with his father.
his best friend, Nguyen, who later became more known as
Comrade Ho Chi Minh. In America, a grandfather managed to marry a Jewish woman.
of course a fierce communist, and took her to Vietnam. She gave him a bunch.
Vietnamese Jews, and they gave birth to grandchildren and among them Lin. after
After the scandalous return of Lin, the whole prominent Vietnamese family gathered.
decided what to do. Initially, he was sent to re-education.
The village. The grandmother said, “Let’s send her to my sister.
of Israel. The climate is awful, surrounded by enemies. Let me know the pound.
The risk. Well, she didn’t say it exactly, but in a sense. You understand. This is so
We met and in a month we got married. Now we have three children.
The big ones?
The younger is still in the army, and the oldest is already a Khashid rabbi. He is
He knows Vietnamese, so he was sent to Ho Chi Minh to return to Vietnam.
The origins of local Jews. He tried not to complain, but the Jews were not there.
and thick. Other than relatives, I can say no. When he left,
He was green and naive. I remember he arrived there on Friday morning, after
On Saturday, he went out to the city and called us the next night.
The work, he says, is an unfinished end. All the windows are burning.
There are no candles and no synagogues in the city. He could not imagine what
The city can turn off electricity. This is how we live, concluded Cole.
Better to drink. This is called “doing leahim”, but the essence of
This does not change.

We drank and repeated. Then Cole invited me to the best in Tel
Avive absolutely cosher fried silk.” And I had to refuse because I left early in the morning. The next time I come, I will definitely take advantage of this invitation.

by Abrp722