'The Street Vendor'

Shop space is expensive and is financial overhead; same with taxes,

so this woman street vendor dispenses with both, along with several

million of her country people in Ukraine who have turned to vending

on the street and also from unlicensed and mostly untaxed kiosks.

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This is a subtle photo with seemingly little PN viewer appeal judging from clicks, but I like it, especially her somewhat quizzical expression.

I've known this lady by nodding for some years and this is what she does.

It reminds me of the '90s in Moscow when women sold the clothes from their closets for good on long lines in the street, plus their furniture and other things -- even their silver, etc., and anybody who wanted a bargain could really make out, but who wanted to take advantage of blocks long lines of old babushkij?

I really felt sorry for those old women and the suffering they took when their lifelong pensions under Communism were cut hugely by inflation with the advent of Capitalism.

Instead of Communist cruises and resorts in old age in nice flats, they were peddling their clothes and anything nice they owned just to eat.

How sad those times were; under Putin it's better, but look what he's done in terms of 'civil rights' . . . . . . Russians respect a 'powerful leader' as one  assistant informed me, and don't seem to know much else.

Grandmothers told me personally they wept when Papa Stalin's death was announced -- genuinely wept.  His misdeeds were largely unknown.

I've learned things and seen things through time, and one is that a rear view mirror reflects very well.

Sometimes windshields are fogged and better helped by those who also watched life through a rear view.

john

John (Crosley)