Emerging from the Dark
During Soviet days the authorities arrested and imprisoned my father, a pastor. He was sentenced to be executed, but Russia was constructing something above the Arctic Circle, so Stalin sent him and other prisoners up there to work in the cold. When he returned home, aged and sick, after 19 years, he learned that his wife and two sons had died. So he remarried and started a new family—my family. My father was 54 years old when I was born. ...