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It was Churchill who noted that facts are better than dreams. For we can dream all we want of jobs, or a national health care program, or financial security, or peace, if we do not work for those ends, it just won’t happen. To hope is good, but the word is too subjective. I can pray all [...] I did not anticipate, nor was I prepared to immediately answer, the question. Over the years the memory of the events had been relegated to the farthest corners of my mind. It would take time to recall the story. And one thing a speaker doesn’t have when facing a group is time. I had been on [...] There is talk about the present freely-elected government of the Republic of Armenia apologizing to those who suffered the indignation and down-right cruelty inflicted upon the repatriates. I, for one don’t need one. I felt that, despite the hardships and the discrimination, I came out of the foreboding turmoil a better person with a [...] Anyone who has read “The Repatriate – Love Basketball and the KGB” – knows my personal hatred for the Soviet agency ‘OVIR’, the agency charged with issuing exit visas. Not only did a Soviet citizen who applied for an exit visa from the USSR have to leap scores of obstacles and face many needless [...] |
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