MOSCOW --……. just about it later....... but to start with.......
This article is all about a description of a UNIVERSITY named after the FIRST President from the CONTINENT of Africa and visited by the FIRST President of India........
, Well " MOSCOW " .....This name when I was small in age , and a
kid , use to somehow make me feel wonder…… as if I was a ALICE in the wonderful
land or may be a WONDERLAND and it use
to make me to feel that NO OTHER PLACE
IN THE WORLD WOULD BE AS SO MUCH, WONDERFUL which always would keep me WONDERING AND WIZARDY IN NATURE as Moscow could be along
with NEW YORK.
Then it happened in 1976 when I
was admitted in Hislop College at Nagpur. That ws the time that I had learned about this
University and all about it’s GLITZ and GLARE through a chapter named as “ MERA PEHLA VIDESH YATRA ” a lesson that contained all about the FIRST of
all the other travels that Doctor Rajendra Prasad the FIRST President Of India
had undertaken in his official capacity.
He in his note and in the lesson
that we learned at that time narrated all about his experience which he
encountered at the tour and he brilliantly narrated all about this University
on which I’m going to jot my lines all
over here.
The memoirs of that chapter is
still lave but ALIVE and even after the passage of 44 years when I had like the frost but FIRST learned
about this University as ascribed in that chapter and described by Shri Rajendra Babu is fresh and
etched in my memory.
Pics : The Patrice Lumumba Universit , then when Dr Rajendra Babu visited it
The ONE para which I cannot forget
written by him was that when he visited the University at Moscow the RATIO – OF – TEACHERS – AND – THE –
STUDENTS were in the ratio of 1:2 which means that there were TWO students who were looked upon by ONE teachers and the
SECOND was the ratio of the books in the University library to the students
were in the ratio of 1:1 which means for every students at the University there
were ONE books for him to utilize it for him in the library. This had turned my
head around.
After scaling my readership in my
web site BHATTACHARJEE SHYAMAL Blogger
at Ukraine which was a part of U.S.S.R then , and in Russia where at Ukraine I get about 60
plus of redaers everyday and at Russia where I get about two to three readers
everyday, I felt and it hit me all of a sudden about finding out HOW IS THIS UNIVERSITY RUNNING NOW AND WHAT
IS IS DOING NOW.
Some memoirs of that reading while
at the College days then, and many research for some days while I was finding
out the OF-LATE-FACTS of the University, I at last have now come to a point and
conclusion where I could put my words in and about this UNIVERSITY which once
was HAILED as PERHAPS the BEST in the WORLD.
Well that was then. What is it now
is all about the article and this makes an interesting reading This is for the
readers to read it and read them all.
The GOOD – OLDEN – DAYS – OF – THIS –
UNIVERSITY
In the old days, the typical student at Patrice Lumumba University would
be a young African, someone who could hope to become his country's first native-born
doctor or an Engineer
after graduation. The teaching was such
that it was based on the PRINCIPLES- OF – COMMUNISM back
home. The new graduate would be expected to take communism home with him and preach of its glories.
Principles
Of “ COMMUNISM ”
The
PRICIPLES of the Communism aand its’s politics is-:
YOU HAVE
TWO COWS, I “ KILL ” ONE AND I TAKE THE OTHER ONE .
The Communist all across and all over the
world wherever they existed believed and followed this theory of COUNTRY-MANAGEMENT lest their
own voters THREW them off by kicking at their back .The examples of every
country following COMMUNISM is to be seen and believed .The classic examples
are the nation like Yugoslavia and USSR.
It is ONLY India that is still holding them and very soon I see the GONE-WITH-THE-WIND
of this party and it’s primciples here at India. That communist dream is gone,
but the university goes on, struggling to survive in free-market style.
Patrice
Lumumba University -- alma mater of the terrorist " Carlos "
and of hundreds of men and women who are government officials throughout the
Third World -- now is a cheap and not so choosy institution. A
mathematics professor despondent over the school's decline describes it as
where " the best of the world's worst students "
come for an easy degree. This is how the COMMUNISM is, this is what the
COMMUNIST made it and this is what the COMMUNISM after the end of every DAMN
and BLESSED things, make the institutions and the country like.
COMMUNISM IS A TOTAL OUTPUT OF “
BAD- WORSE-WORST ” that
exists everywhere
I was at
Sri-Lanka between the period January 20th to January 27th
this year ie the year 2020. I was there to attend some conference which related
my daughter to complete some projectthat was in partial requirement for her to
complete her course in ARCHITECTURE as a
pre mandatory requirement for partially fulfilling the requirement for her
course for getting her degree in Architecture. We were at the UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY at
Sri-Lanka where my daughter spend a lot of time to complete the project
assigned to her. That ws the time when I met a Sri-Lankan lady , a MEDICAL
student who had come over there to do something that related to the X-Ray and
it’s application as a technical aid in medicine. Free and interested to know
about USSR and this University I just asked her about this University and say
it LUCK, she was from this University. The story began and it was this to START
with-:
" I couldn't get into the
university at home, and that's the only reason I would come here ” ie the University of Patrice Lumumba at
Moscow, says Nayana Prematilaka, a medical student from Sri Lanka who
hopes to improve her English enough to pass exams qualifying her for her dream
school -- the Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine.
Her
classmates from India, Jordan and Peru who followed Ms
Nayana Prematilaka to Sri – Lanka for their completion of their projects here
at this Univeristy too has similar theories to offer when I asked them for thet
too had to offer similar stories:
“ Even
with the necessary year of Russian language study, they find it cheaper and
easier to pay $8,000 ie about Rs
6,16,000=00 up front for a six-year degree program in Moscow than getting in
anywhere else in the world ”.
Until the
collapse of the Soviet Union, the school awarded full scholarships to everyone,
and the Communist Party offered subsidies that paid round-trip airfare and
room and board, plus a stipend generous enough for students to use to build a
nest egg. More than 70 percent of the 6,500 students
were foreigners, as that PERUVIAN , a total FOOTBALL-CRAZY- BUGGAR and a
TREMENDOUS fan of Pele and Teofilo Cubbillas a FAMOUS Peruvian Footballer of
the Seventies, asserted me. .
The
foreigners are now slightly outnumbered
by Russians, who can still attend the university free of charge. The mix of foreigners has changed, too:
Those from Africa and Latin America, whose countries were considered the most
fertile ground for Soviet cultivation, have been supplanted by their students
from Arab
states and Southeast Asia, who can more easily afford tuition.
Russia
still honors the scholarships awarded to foreigners who began their studies
before 1992 -- but there are complications, and these complications are growing
day by days and the Government of Russia under Mr Vladimir Putin is unable to do anything for
anything.
MARXIST ECONOMY RUNS “ STRONG ”
The food
stipend -- about $20 a month,
when the school has money to pay it -- is no longer enough to feed anyone. Moreover, the university is housing
graduates whose native countries are not safe to return to, such as Rwanda and Somalia. “ There are no jobs for those graduates
at home and none for them in Russia ” . Those hardships mean that
the profit motive that was vigorously denounced in the mandatory courses on scientific communism and Marxist Economics now runs
strong.
Some of
the poorest students take holiday
smuggling trips for goods they can sell in Moscow's outdoor bazaars. It
is not uncommon to see inventories of crocodile-skin purses in dorm closets,
merchandise available for sale when the need for cash arises.
The golden
age was the 1960s. Communism
appeared to be on the rise, and the university was brand new.
When asked
further to explain moe and something new about anything the words that came out
from her mouth were really horrible and I do not want to ascribe it or describe
it over here. However she narrated me
about a lady whom she had to fall upon during her initial struggle of her days
at Moscow and this University and told me about a lady whoe name was Nikita Khrushchev, who proclaimed in 1960 that the Russian Peoples'
Friendship University existed, and the " Communists being communists, they
had to do what he ie the Communist said," says or said. It was Anatoly Kirillov, an
International Labor Organization consultant and a graduate and teacher at the
school said and the entire University had to do that said that lady. .
"
There were many and they are many and they would be ,many , who would be the student of this
University, in the days to come and they too would have to follow the
principles of the VAGUE – COMMUNISM who
would have to act on the principles of Mr. Kirillov, who was drafted without
much choice from another college. The vague principles for the Univeristy and for
the students of the university was created nearly overnight, and the military's
general staff academy was evicted from its headquarters to make room for
students from abroad.
" I was selected as a good representative
of the Soviet young people. We knew there was a fight for the young brains of
these countries; we wanted them to go the socialist way. But we were also doing
it from our heart," Mr. Kirillov says always to the young and the
aspirants and you too have to follow the same he adds .
" Yes,
we taught them Marxist-Leninist philosophy, the same way you taught capitalism
in the U.S."….. he adds to his “ GLOAT ” and “ PRIDES ” himself with it……
For the Russians,
the school ie the UNIVERSITY, offers and offered the first contact with foreigners in
nearly a generation and a first contact with blacks. When the African students
ventured off campus, " old people would crowd around in
the streets," the better to touch them, Mr. Kirillov says.
Within a
year or two, the school was renamed Patrice
Lumumba University, in honor of the first Prime Minister of the African nation now called Zaire, a figure who was a vocal
critic of the West and who was assassinated in 1961.
In 1992,
the university reverted to its original name, without anyone taking much
notice.
The campus
of Soviet-style cement-block buildings is in what used to be forest on the
outskirts of Moscow. The buildings
are crumbling, the university too nearly broke to repair them. In
fall and winter, when darkness comes early, students climb unlighted stairwells
because the school can not afford light bulbs.
Students
don't talk a lot about political heroes. In the old days, Che Guevara and Nelson
Mandela were the figures to admire, and the Soviets tried to put the
best of their society on display,
" I
know that in those days they were also looking for those with potential to work
for Russian intelligence agencies -- but it's hard to know what they're trying
to do today," and this is the REALITY of those Graduates who the Russian
authorities look upon to serve the Russian Intelligence of late and the kind of
the job that the Russain Government gets ready to offer .
Mr.
Kirillov remembers students and professors working late into the night,
remembers them sharing a dedication to making the university an academic and
ideological success.
Salary :: A “ PITTIANCE ”
There is little incentive to work late
now. The salary for professors is less than $150 a month. It
works to about Rs 11,460=00 per month . Not many teachers who stay to talk
after class, since they're in a rush to go to their second jobs.
" Teachers
here used to be excited about teaching all they knew about a subject and about
life here -- it made students and teachers close, life-long friends," said
that Lady at Sri-Lanka , but now the case is totally reversed and turvy when
she narrated about a Professor Alexander Petrovich, who has taught
here for two decades.
" But
the fact is that students saw SOCIALISM
, , and it wasn't as good as it could be, so the friendly university atmosphere
compensated for what was wrong -- and those times seem romantic now."
There is
still serious study taking place. " We have to be very grateful to this
university," says Kola Are, a 34-year-old Nigerian, who will graduate in
April with a degree in finance. " I wasn't good in math when I came here.
In fact, I would run from math class. But they taught me well, and now I can
solve any question and prove it " , said a student whose name was told to
me by that lady student of Sri-Lanka about some good points which are too
meagre to be proud of, as ashe described , about some good things that still
runs in the University.
Battle against “ RACISM ” :: “ SMOKE ” up in the “ AIR ”
There is also still the haze of
cigarette smoke, perhaps the only thing that hasn't changed. For the DIFFICULTIES
are so much greater.
That lady
student went on further to add that , while talking to me and the talks of many a
student at that University, , the talks
surrounding the talks of students becoming homesick, struggling with the language,
struggling with the winters and then, if they are black, having to
battle racism.
He and Many of them were thrashed and many and any
of the African friends have been beaten
in the streets, she says. That is something that never happened "
when the rule of law was respected " -- before the end of
communism.
And thus
before Patrice Lumumba University lost its “
LUSTER ” .
Well , that is it
Regards and Thanks
Pics
Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author
was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja,
Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education
at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ
Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later
joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed
his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B
A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central
India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor
( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He
thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has
authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble
Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket :
Faces That Changed It published by Manas Publications in 2009
and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in
2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing
.
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Now I know which way how, acclaimed famed bites the dust. No wonder many more to bite the dust in the coming days ahead. Not surprised by this detiorating saga. Takshila disappeared, so it will be in today's era's toothless Tigers 👏👏
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