I was born in Ukraine, and so was the rest of my family. However, I was lucky to be born into a family where the father is a businessman and is very rich by local standards. When my mother met him, he protected her from immigrants that were harassing her. He was always happy, very socially active, etc. Skipping forward to when I was 7 years old in 2009, we migrated from Ukraine to Canada. Life was good, but I rarely had a father figure in my life as he lived in Ukraine to run his business, and came to visit once in a while. Then, we moved back to Ukraine 2 weeks ago and it's gone completely downhill. My mom is like a complete slave to him. She cooks, she cleans, she takes care of me and my 5 year old brother. But my father always sits on his ass, yelling at the TV about how the government is corrupt and all the politicians in this country need to be killed. When he's not doing that, he goes to his factory and yells at every single on of his workers because they aren't doing anything. If they do something, he also yells at them because apparently they are doing it wrong.  There is so much work to be done and so much money to be made, but he is so god damn lazy that we haven't made a dime in the past few months. My 29 year old uncle is also my father's slave. Whenever my father needs something, my uncle goes to fetch it because he has no other opportunities in this country. My uncle was once offered a job and a home in Russia, but my father persuaded him to stay saying that we will buy him a home and a car. That was 4 years ago, and still he lives in a small apartment, has no car, and a pregnant girlfriend. My mom does everything for him, but he won't let her get a gym membership because he thinks the gym is where women flirt with other men. Today, he yelled at her because she wanted to wear something he considered slutty. He told her that she will never come to work with him again because apparently she wants to attract men at the workplace. In Canada, my mother was alone for 5 years, taking care of my brother when he was just born, doing all the housework, and going to college. She actually took nursing in college as a backup in case something like this happened. My father convinced her to quit and come to Ukraine with us. He always talks about how we have no money and can't buy anything for us, while he sits down, orders some shit online, gets in his expensive imported Dodge Ram, drives like 100km to his workplace, then back. During the weekend, he goes to our cottage where he is building a house. He really likes to save money on us, but spends as much as he likes on himself. Not once has he had the initiative to take my little brother to the park for a walk, whenever my mom asks him to he starts a shitshow and screams at everyone. I now see his methods, he brings us to this poor country where minimum hourly wage is 70 CENTS, and treats us like shit because we have nowhere to go. He's always yelling at people and thinks everyone owes him something, and yells at me when I point it out. Luckily we still have a flight back to Canada this summer, because at first we planned to go back. The Soviet way of life is still engraved into his head, he thinks he's supposed to work and come home, while his wife constantly works and gets yelled at if she doesn't. I can't tell him that we plan to leave, or he will cancel it. Also, he had a family and 2 kids before us, which also left him. I now understand why. He talks about how his son from that family betrayed him by stealing his money and car, but he did the exact same thing to them as us. These days he is completely asocial and yells about how everyone is a backstabber and there are no loyal and good people in this world, which is ironic. Whenever anyone tries to communicate with them, he yells at them and they never want to talk again. I really like living here, but my mother will be going back to Canada and so will I, since I cannot leave her. With my father we sit at home all day and don't do anything, because on the weekdays he's either at work or "tired", and on weekends he goes to the cottage. He thinks everyone's out to steal from him and betray him. I regret everything bad I said about Canada now, because at least they will give us child support, they will pay my mom as a single parent of two, and we will make above $12 an hour, compared to the 70 cents here. One of our relatives moved to Russia for a better life for their family, and my father labelled them as traitors, since he hates Russia. This week we plan to go visit my grandmother in far eastern Ukraine where there is war nearby, and I bet money that my father will scream about how we shouldn't go there and go to his shitty cottage instead, where we get the privilege of watching him fish and scream at the news on TV. Sorry about this long rant, and it's all scrambled up, representing my current mental state.