Oksana Balinskaya brown eyes fixed on Moammar Khadafy images on a television screen. She was now in her home in Ukraine, where she grew up.
While Khadafy, the pictures she saw on television, it has fallen. He is now a leader on the run. Khadafy known as the ruthless leader of a pariah state, a butcher, a man who suffered delusions, who divorced from reality.
However Balinskaya, 25, who nearly two years working as one of five nurses from Ukraine to Khadafy, always saw Khadafy in a different light. The woman was first examined Khadafy blood pressure, heart monitor, Khadafy stabbing with a needle to take blood, give him vitamins and pills to cure the illness, although Khadafy not seem to have many diseases. Khadafy a healthy man.
When it Balinskaya even had a special calling to Khadafy, ie "Daddy". All Ukrainian nurse called him so. It is a nickname that is used when talking about Khadafy among themselves, without attracting attention. "Daddy gave us jobs, money and good life," she told CNN on Sunday.
Now, far from the Libyan desert, Balinskaya sitting at the kitchen table with her husband of Serbian origin, staring at the television is placed on top of the refrigerator. Picture-image of your Libyan rebels were flashed on television. The woman will feel sorry if Khadafy until killed or captured.
"Khadafy enough attention to us," she said. "She asked us whether we were happy and if we had everything we needed."
Every September, the anniversary Khadafy came to power, he gave a souvenir for the nurses and other members of Ukraine in the circle in his power. Balinskaya receive a medal and an engraved wristwatch Khadafy photo.
Balinskaya used interchangeably with the other nurses escort Khadafy in trips abroad. Their presence around Khadafy sometimes sparked rumors in the media about women around the Khadafy. But all that is said about Khadafy seems to contradict what Balinskaya know about him, including allegations by the family nanny Khadafy and the household staff that they were tortured and abused.
Khadafy, Balinskaya said, always treated him very well. Her job ended because the civil war broke out in Libya. She also regretted what happened to the nation. "If it were not Khadafy, who else will build the country?" she said. "It was he who built Libya. He moved the people of Libya from the camel's back in the car."
It should not wear makeup or wear flashy clothes open
When Khadafy visited Ukraine in October 2009, Balinskaya had graduated from nursing school in Kiev and has worked in the place of origin in Mogilnoye for three years. But life is not easy in Ukraine. She only got 125 dollars (or a million dollars) a month. The woman knew about the opportunities in Libya and has filed an application to work there. It is an opportunity to change fate. Salaries are higher in Libya and she will receive the house facilities and other facilities.
She has been waiting for an answer to his proposal about a month when Khadafy arrives for state visit to Ukraine. A meeting is set for Khadafy to meet the six candidates for his personal nurse. Balinskaya one of them. He knew little about Khadafy and felt nervous at their first meeting. Three of the six nurses were already working in Libya and know Arabic. Balinskaya thought she had no chance.
Khadafy Balinskaya greeted them but said nothing special in the selection process. "I do not know how he made his choice, maybe he's a good psychologist," she said. Balinskaya lately knows that Khadafy can understand the people from his first-hand, from their eyes.
Soon, Balinskaya on the way to Tripoli. Her job solely to treat Khadafy and his extended family. The rules are strict; nurses Ukrainian beautiful it should not wear makeup or wear flashy clothes open.
"Our look is very simple so as not to attract the attention of anyone," she said. "We never wore lipstick when I went to his house."
Balinskaya always surrounded by other people Khadafy-wife, children, grandchildren, officials in his power circle. "None of us had ever been alone with him," she said. "There is not even one room in his house where we might be left alone with him."
So she was surprised by the rumor that Khadafy had sexual relations with their foreign nurses. Seasoned nurses Ukraine, Galina Kolonitskaya, 38, who has worked with Khadafy for nearly a decade, is described in U.S. diplomatic wires were posted WikiLeaks as "the blonde exciting" who "knows the routine Khadafy." In the wires saying that the Libyan dictator relies heavily on Kolonitskaya.
"Galina nurses the same as any of us," said Balinskaya. "She's certainly a very attractive woman and very kind. He helped me a lot. I do not know who created the image of our nurses, as well as about the female bodyguard," she said. "How can anyone in his right mind think that we can have an intimate relationship with Khadafy?"
Wish to return to Libya
Balinskaya and Kolonitskaya leave Libya in February when the rebellion against Khadafy began. But it's not just the threat of war that encourages Balinskaya to go home. She was pregnant at the time and her stomach began to look bigger. She then returned to its original place in Mogilnoye, a village south of Kiev. Her husband, Dejan, 38, a Serbian businessman, joined her there. Last month, when the regime Khadafy giddy, Balinskaya gave birth to a baby boy.
Journalists who would like to hear stories about Khadafy Kolonitskaya, lined up at the door of his apartment. But the nurse to avoid publicity. "All the rumors about Kolonitskaya not true," said Balinskaya. "He was really fed up. Too much attention to it and all for no reason."
The nurses, Balinskaya said, had no personal relationship with Khadafy. "I can only say good things about him," she said, thinking about him a comfortable life in Libya and dreamed how it happened again. "I really hope we can return to Libya," she said, leafing through an album containing photos of her in Libya.
Only, now Libya is different. Libya without Khadafy. Without the "Daddy".
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