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Vladimir and His Escape to the West
Canada Free Press ^ | 04/07/17 | Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

Posted on 04/07/2017 11:08:45 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Since they left, Vladimir never went back to Kiev, now part of Ukraine

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” —Albert Einstein

My friend Vladimir came to the United States legally in 1979. It was almost impossible to come illegally from the former Soviet communist state, USSR. It was the first and last time in his life when being Jewish helped him a lot, he said. If he would have been a member of the communist party, Vladimir would not have been allowed to immigrate to the United States at that time or to become an American citizen.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s agents of the immigration office loved America and did their best to protect it from invasion by flotsam and jetsam from third world dictatorships, especially communist ones.


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; immigration; jews; migration

1 posted on 04/07/2017 11:08:45 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

Dont ask Kiev for appology, but Obama, sheesh.


2 posted on 04/07/2017 11:34:25 AM PDT by lavaroise
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