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In Reply to: Re: Who could not? posted by patrickU on June 14, 2004 at 00:51:31:

White Russians... Interestingly, last night in the company of good friends, we got to hear some of the most incredibly personal stories. There was one about a 13 year olf boy escaping from Odessa before the revolution, by hiding in the belly of a ship. He settled in in Switzerland and got married, only to be later deported by the allies (one of the darkest, bloodiest spots on the Western allies reputation was the forcible deportation of the former Soviet citizens... mostly to their certain death) to the USSR. He was of course sent to the labor camp.
His young wife, a Swiss lady, decided to find him... poor soul, she didn't know what she was dealing with. So she arrived to Odessa and started looking for him, in the totally hostile atmosphere... but she loved him and was determined to find her husband. She was apparently a talented lace maker.
She did find him, in one of the camps, and she waited for him to get out - he survived and they settled in Odessa. Our friends knew them personally. The couple bought a small lot, a hole in the ground really, and they built a beautiful little house there, its roof even with the roads around, and they created a garden there. They were subject of constant hatred from the locals - people would throw razor blades into their garden... but they loved each other and they were sweet people. He died in the seventies, I believe, and only then she went beck to her homeland.
You might recall the movie called East West, which deals with a story along those lines, albeing covered with the normal Hollywood trash, but we often don't realize there were millions of people who lived lives more interesting and deep than most movies.

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