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: Two life stories of how they ended up in America, generationally apart, living through different world events - I post for anyone who might be interested. I love reading human interest stories and that is what politics is all about - people's lives, individually and in relation to each other. : Petunia : http://www.banderabulletin.com/articles/2005/08/24/news/lifestyles/life66.txt : "Indomitable is the human spirit. After being beaten, starved, devoid of humane treatment and threatened with death almost daily, hope continues to miraculously live on, somehow. Find hope and find survival. Find survival and find love. Find love and renew hope. : Sitting in his living room while a grandfather clock gently ticks the passing minutes, Alexander Bunegin recalls a dark existence far from his Pipe Creek home. He spoke of the Komitet Gosudarstvenoi Bezopasnosti (Russian KGB), his family's exile to Siberia, being held a prisoner of war in a German labor camp and finding his soul-mate while there. : Once an officer in the Russian Army, Alexander was captured by the German Nazis during World War II and imprisoned from 1941 to 1942. After his release, he went to Ukraine but was arrested again when Hitler's forces swept through the country. Alexander was sent to a labor camp in Munich, where he would remain until the war was over.... : General Dwight D. Eisenhower helped carry out the orders. Between 1945 and 1948, two million Russians were returned to the Soviet Union to face imprisonment, exile and execution. : An international organization formed in protest of the act, which included the Bunegins. : "We wrote a letter to Mrs. Roosevelt telling her what her husband had signed," Natalia said. "Mrs. Roosevelt called President Truman and he said, 'Stop.' He said if people don't want to go, let them stay." : In 1949, the Bunegins emigrated to the United States." : "The undying resolve to live" : By Jessica Hawley : -------------------- : : http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/possible22.htm : "Danil Kovalev, a 19-year-old student from Blagoveshchensk, Russia, sits on the roof of his Center Street, Hyannis, apartment. Kovalev came to the Cape to work for the summer, but found opportunities that made him want to stay indefinitely. " : "A country where everything is possible" : By MICHAEL LaFORGIA