Mykola Kanishevsky (Conclusions)

Mykola
Then:
- Former Komsomol member (and probably leader)
- Tool within YT-2/not a radcial golden boy, but rather he fit the mold on a Soviet newsanchor
- NOT a news reader (because he actually wrote the words he said whereas readers just read them)
- A good manager of people. He attracted staff and built teams that were like a family around him.
- A calm proper speaker. Not one to lose his temper.

Now:
- He keeps his cash with a functioning business enterprise. Not in a bank. He says he can get the money out (up to a certain amount) within a day, or for larger amounts within a few days. He preferes to do it this way since he knows the people who are running it and he can see the benefits.
- He bought his first piece of land while he was still working as a journalist. Once he had one good transaction, he decided to go full-time into real-estate and ended his TV career and aspirations.
- Within the past year, he bought a back-hoe and hired someone to drive it. The back-hoe is parked in front of this house each night. Each morning, the back-hoe driver/operator shows up and drives it off to jobs. Once a month, the operator pays Mykola cash. He says that he doesn't keep track of where the back-hoe goes each day, but the does collect the money. If he makes enough, then he'll consider buying another backhoe.

- The week after I saw him, he was off for a vacation at a beach resort in Egypt. They had been there last year. His wife and son were going to stay longer, Kanish was planning on heading back a few days earlier to keep working.

Is that corrupt or is it capitalism? What is the difference? Does it really matter?

At the end of the day, Kanish wants predictability so that his son can go to and from school each day, take his weekly tennis lessons, and learn to speak Ukrainian, Russian, English and French. Isn't that what we all fought for in the 70's? Isn't that what all the Свічки were about?