Thread by @NikaMelkozerova

When I was a student I wanted to practise my English and make some money. And I found an interesting job - translator in an international matchmaking agency. That is why, sorry, but I don't feel sorry for these men, scammed in Ukraine...Thread

https://twitter.com/NataliaAntonova/status/1407131094391078915

On my first day at a matchmaking agency Cinderella( duh), I got two clients - Victoria, a short brunette 34, and Olga, a tall 20 yo blonde with a super short skirt and super long legs. I have never met both of them. What I got, was their profiles on a dating website.⬇️

My office was located at a rented classroom of a school in a residential district of Kyiv. My supervisor told me that both Victoria and Olga wanted to find husbands to move to America (spell the last phrase with our accent). YET both of them did not speak English!

I only had basic info like (fav food, color, job, hobby, and other blah) about both. Yet every day I had to log in on a special website, with dozens of men online. And I had to write to those men and chat with them on different topics as both Victoria and Olga!) ⬇️

So I had to create two different personalities! And bring them to life in an online chat, where men were paying money for each conversation. And I had to make those men stay online, chatting with me as long as possible. Cause, you know, I was paid per hour) ⬇️

Along with that, I was supposed to decline every request for a video conversation, and only send more pics of both Victoria and Olga, asking the men to come to Kyiv for a meeting instead. I was fine with that back in my student years. ⬇️

If I manage to drag a man to Kyiv I was supposed to be a third person on their date, translating and making the guy pay for her supper and for mine too) Of course in a special restaurant. Btw, I had a male colleague, chatting with men as Oksana and Daria))

first I felt like a trafficker. Yet the more I was chatting with those men, "seeking for love" the less I felt for them. And here's why. Guess how old where most of Victoria's and Olga's potential lovers? 55 and older! ⬇️

sometimes the same men were writing to Olga and Victoria at the same time. Many times 50 y.o were saying to Olga that they wanted a 20 y o wife, cause after their 30s women start getting older so fast, they are less attractive and funny. Sometimes 70 y.o farmers from TExas...⬇️

were saying to 34 y.o Victoria that her clock is ticking) And the accountant from Kentucky was saying that he wants 20 yo Olga to host him at her apartment for a month. cause he was cautious and didn't want to get scammed.

many times i asked different western men, hanging on those websites, why do they want a Ukrainian wife. And the answer was very generous: She's pretty and our women don't want to be pretty for men anymore. They want a career and she would be cooking for me, she would be grateful.

She would be polite, cause she would be dependant. she is not like emancipated western women, she would put him in the first place of her life.

yeah, a 20 y.o blonde would serve a 65 y.o chubby US farmer as his basically sex and cooking slave just cause he saved her from Ukraine. YEah, right!))) that is why I am not sorry for those guys. ⬇️

that is why I don't believe that women and men search for true love on those websites! As both parties do not fucking care to even learn the language of his or her possible spouse. BUT! I knew so many international couples who met in a different way and formed powerhouses!

young men usually do not fall for that scam. They don't have such a disastrous white or in this case western savior complex that doesn't allow them to think clearly

For the record. The fact that Ukrainian women have become sort of a brand overseas is the ugliest thing for me. Cause Ukrainian women are very strong, smart as hell, most of them raise children and do business, work...⬇️

Yet blogs like this one: godatinginukraine.com/ukrainian-wome… present them as the ones, who dream to become a wife and care only for that and their looks.

I can't express what I felt when one French macho was talking to me and a brilliant female journalist from Belarus and casually "joked": Earlier I preferred Ukrainian women but they've recently become too European, so I turned to Belarusian women, cause you know, they are trapped