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The Day I Met Gorbachev

Philip Yancey — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:09:28 +0000

I grew up during the Cold War, an era dominated by the two superpowers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Then in 1989 came one of those history-changing days that no one had predicted. Guards at the Berlin Wall, trained to kill anyone attempting to escape, instead opened the gates to freedom, and the hated ... Read more

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Emerging from the Dark

Philip Yancey — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:58:10 +0000

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 ... Read more

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