Elena Gorokhova writes about growing up in Leningrad in the Soviet Union. Her descriptions of life during the 1960s and 1970s are fascinating - and so different from my childhood and young adult years.
A couple in our congregation were born and lived in Romania until just a few years ago. Consuela gives fascinating examples when she teaches. She often speaks of life before and after the Revolution. In Worthington we knew a woman and her two daughters who left family in Bulgaria to come to Canada and the United States for opportunities. She grew up in Belarus. She married and moved to Bulgaria where her children were born. Her father was in the Soviet military, stationed with missiles that were pointed at the United States.
This was about the same time that Joe was on a military base in Kodiak, Alaska. Joe and others were processing information from listening stations and from planes that were overflying the Soviet Union - probably passing over the missiles being manned by this woman's father - and others. She had interesting stories about life here versus life in the Soviet Union.
Books like this cause me to pause and ponder the abundance of blessings we have in this country - and the responsibility we have as citizens.
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Elena Gorokhova's website
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