Full circle. From New York to Moscow and back
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translation: Full circle. From New York to Moscow and back
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Vladimir Talmy was born and died in the USA, yet the greater part of his life was spent in the USSR where he observed the worst events of Stalin’s reign. His parents, American Communists, went to Soviet Russia in 1931 to build socialism. They believed they were choosing the best destiny for their son. For Vladimir, life in the USSR embraced school and college, the war and hospital, work as an interpreter for the Soviet Military Administration in occupied Germany, and then prison and eight years in а Stalinist labor camp. Vladimir’s father, Leon, was arrested and executed in 1952 together with other members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. His mother was exiled to Siberia. Vladimir came back to America only in 1980 - half a century after he had left it. His story is not just a confession of a witness to, and a participant in, historic events, it is a warning for generations to come.
