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    Observation to Understanding.
    Observation to Understanding.
    Observation to Understanding.
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    Observation to Understanding.

    By Victoria Zabukovec

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    As a refugee from Eastern Europe, after World War II, I was lucky to have been able to make my home in Australia, at age 16.
    After 30 years of work, 3 sons and completing a B.A. Dip Ed. at Adelaide University, my husband and I visited our old homelands, that were under Communist rule at the time. On returning to Australia, I felt crushed by what I had seen, heard and observed. I started "scribbling" to get the poison of anger out of my system. Sarcasm, humour, laughter and cynicism reduced the pain and made me start writing.
    I began tho look at politics in dictatorships and that made it obligatory to do the same for democracies; and then other memories of life and books surfaced from oblivion .(life, sorrow, aging, fate, encounters, preserving history in writing is like giving immortality to the character and events)
    There are those who say that certain things never happened, but books are experiences memory chips.
    Thoughts' energy is stored in books and readers free the trapped voices inside them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVictoria Zabukovec
    Release dateOct 16, 2014
    ISBN9781311944511
    Observation to Understanding.
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    Victoria Zabukovec

    Victoria Zabukovec was born in Bulgaria, lived in Hungary and after World War 2, became a Displaced Person in Germany. At age 17, Victoria emigrated to Australia in 1948. Like many female immigrants, she was employed as a cleaner in a country Hospital.After marriage, three sons, full time work and her husband’s help, Victoria Zabukovec graduated from Adelaide University with a B.A., Dip. Ed., with majors in English, German, History and Sociology.Most of Victoria Zabukovec’s professional life was spent teaching senior secondary students.After 22 years of teaching, Victoria branched out into Public Broadcasting, in community languages,on 5UV, University of Adelaide Radio Station, which developed into 5 -EBI, Ethnic Broadcasters Inc. , broadcasting in community languages, a precursor to SBS ( Special Broadcasting Service).,which followed its own development.Victoria’s work continued during The History Trust’s establishment of the Migration Museum in Adelaide followed by working for N AATI (National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters) as an examiner.Her favourite activities have always been reading and research. Now at 82 years of age, she might write another book.

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      Observation to Understanding. - Victoria Zabukovec

      Politics in Dictatorships:

      Recipe for making Tyrants

      Take one mediocre human

      with a chip on the shoulder.

      Add liberal lashings of

      jealousy, envy and selfishness.

      Stuff with authoritarian personality

      and bake in social oven

      at revolutionary temperature,

      with plenty of self justification.

      Reduce to reactionary temperature

      and baste with pomposity and self-righteousness.

      Remove from oven and spike

      with bigotry and intolerance.

      Garnish with frothy passion for power

      and contempt for the rights of others.

      Serve on a tray of inflated heroics,

      on a table of self-aggrandisement.

      Utopia

      In Utopia humour is disciplined.

      You laugh on cue, you write to a formula;

      Your art needs approval.

      But love the forbidden, and you cry alone.

      The Peace Poster.

      Peace to the world, or I'll smash you to get it;

      the clenched fist signalled, holding the olive branch.

      Mouth twisted with hate, snarling the message of peace;

      the fixed bayonet heralds good will to all men;

      the battle phalanx assures love and forgiveness;

      the Dove of Peace proclaims the peace——of the grave.

      People don't Matter

      The state was created for people, you think?

      For serving their needs, to govern and rule?

      But who is

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