She had a Dream. In fact, she had several Dreams. Taken together, they made up her Dream
− that one day she would be able to teach again, − she loved teaching and was among the best teachers in her field in her home country’s capital, and she had an invitation to teach at one of Canada’s best universities,
− that one day she would finish her book StoryTeller, StoryTime about her many friends, and another one − Butterflies and Bombs − about her family’s life in Canada (she outlined the book’s main message in her letter On Refugees, Vulnerable People and Radicalization to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
− that she would expand her EcoGarden to protect those who could not protect themselves, give them food and shelter, and, above all,
that a day will come when her rights that she allegedly had as a citizen would be respected and recognized, that she would be treated equally with others.
Her Dream remained just that − the Dream. One was not expected to entertain Dreams in the Orwellian Canada. Big Brother considered them to be dangerous: sooner or later they triggered memories of the past reminding those who wind up in the Orwellian Canada of who and what they were in that other world, the world outside the confines of the Orwellian Canada.
And so Big Brother smashed one by one her hopes and aspirations: did not allow her to work as teacher, seized her notes and drafts for her books, and destroyed her EcoGarden…
Big Brother wanted to crush her belief that she had the right to be treated equally with others. He wanted to bring her to her knees. She did not bend. She stood her ground. In the end she died standing.
Big Brother was used to see those whose dreams he habitually smashed crawl begging for mercy and forgiveness. He failed to realize that she was born to fly; that those who were born to fly did not crawl, and that those who were born to crawl could not fly. This is what she admired most in her best friend, The Butterfly, − the freedom to fly:
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To kill her Dream Big Brother used the Operator of the Animal Farm where she lived and where she set up her EcoGarden, Lady Justice − Big Brother’s confidante − and Three Wise Monkeys. Together, they were to turn her life and the life of her family into the Nightmare.
Lady Justice who hails from ancient Rome and the times of the emperors Augustus and Tiberius originally did not wear a blindfold, one of her attributes along with a balance and a sword. The famous German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder depicted this historical fact in his painting Justice dating to 1537:
The blindfold that symbolizes impartiality appeared later that century and since then Lady Justice is commonly represented as “blind”. Although in the Orwellian Canada the blindfold does not impair her politically correct vision:
The Three Wise Monkeys hail from the 17th century Japan where they represented the proverbial principle “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil”:
In the Orwellian Canada they were ascribed a different meaning: they symbolize code of silence, willful blindness and lack of moral responsibility:
The Nightmare began when she wrote in February 2013 to Lady Justice: (read more here and also here):
… Living in Canada for more than 20 years, first, as a refugee and then as a hyphenated Canadian, a Russian Canadian, living for years in Quebec where people still refer to her as “la Russe” and “an immigrant”, despite her Canadian citizenship, Svetlana Fotinov − who believed that she would be able to teach foreign languages in Canada and apply her professional knowledge, skills and experience to the benefit of the people of Canada, helping people of different backgrounds and different cultures better understand each other, better understand cultures and traditions of various peoples, strongly believing that understanding leads to tolerance, and then to appreciation and respect − Svetlana Fotinov many times over the course of the past 20 years thought about her grandfather, Nikolai Alekhin. He was a well-educated and well-traveled Russian who lived in Ukraine in the 1930s, at the time of the Great Famine (holodomor) in that Soviet republic. He openly spoke about the dangers Stalin’s policies posed for Ukrainians and, specifically, for Ukrainian peasants and agriculture in the Ukraine that was called “the breadbasket of the Soviet Union”. He was arrested in 1937 for expressing his views and sent to a Gulag in Siberia where he died after being there for only 6 months.
Svetlana Fotinov, who has been living in Canada for over two decades, who has first-hand experience of the kind of treatment refugees and New Canadians get in this country, has thought many times about her grandfather and has often envied his fate: he perished in Siberia after labouring in the Gulag for 6 months only…
Clearly, she had to be silenced, and not only because she believed that she had rights: she fought for the rights of others, − new arrivals in the Orwellian Canada, women, older people, those who worked on contracts for Big Brother and for this reason had no rights whatsoever, those who could not afford a lawyer in the Orwellian Canada…
And so the NIGHTMARE was scripted accordingly…
THE NIGHTMARE: WAKE ME WHEN IT’S OVER
She fought the NIGHTMARE with her DREAM, the EcoGarden being its foundation. One had to be CRAZY DIAMOND to have set up the EcoGarden − where all animals were treated equally − in the midst of the Animal Farm where
And she was Crazy Diamond…
THE DREAM: SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND
OUR ORWELLIAN CANADA 