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It's been my experience that intelligent and moral people who have known oppression appreciate and fight for freedom. Compare that to what so many ignorant, overprivileged young savages here are throwing tantrums to destroy.
This is my first impression, mind you. I intend to learn more. If you're intrigued as well, start with the above link. You can also go to my Facebook page and find him under "Friends."
David, thanks for befriending me. Maybe you already learned something about me from our common friends, but my rule here in Russia is to be repetitive. Facebook is the only tool for staying in touch with my Western readers, and my ability to communicate with them is limited. For two years, my wife and I have been in St. Petersburg trying to prolong the life of her ill mother. My memoir Dancing on Thin Ice, published last year, is about a Russian journalist who knew too many Soviet spies working as foreign correspondents but dared to turn into anti-Soviet human rights activist, attended anti-Semitic trials and gathered information on the persecution of Evangelicals. It was submitted for the annual award given by the American Library Association for achievement in Jewish Literature. The gold medal did not go to me, but the very fact of the nomination pleased me as it was my first book in English. For me, this memoir was more about human rights than of being Jewish. To send to America safely a contract for another memoir, my wife traveled to neighboring Estonia. As I Was Burying Comrade Stalin explains how and why a child, in my case, a Jewish child, becomes secular, brainwashed, and only at 19 begins questioning the possibility of building a communist paradise on this planet. Amazon.com has been promoting this book. Stalin's fans from certain state services here in St. Petersburg were first to read this manuscript on my computer. Maybe they were puzzled to learn that Marxism and communism are fashionable in some American universities, and we have a member of the Democratic Socialist Party in Congress and even sympathizers of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ignorance and prejudice have been trying to tear America apart. 42 years ago, I was stripped of Soviet citizenship. For years, I worked as a Russian Service correspondent of Radio Liberty in Washington, Munich, and Prague.
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