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The Readers Have Spoken
When I landed on the tarmac at the Romulus International Airport in July 1960, after spending 13 years in the Soviet Union, I had seven dollars in my pocket – dollars I had kept during the entire period I lived in the USSR. The $100 issued to me and allowed by the Soviet government to…
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A Cross Road in My Life
After thirteen nebulous years as a citizen of the former USSR, I remember with pride and no prejudice the early days of my life as a reinstated citizen of my country. I was proud to again say, “I am an American.” I shall not take up your valuable time to count the ways I am…
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A Slave to Nightmares
Read more about Tom’s return to the US in A Person of Interest Part 1 and Part 2 Inside the walls of the days and nights of my past I became a slave to my nightmares. I had been in the shadows of the KGB for so many years their ghosts became real and they…
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A Person of Interest…Part 2
This is Part 2 of A Person of Interest. Read Part 1 here. Do you not think that a man or woman who was born, raised and educated in the United States and disappeared for thirteen years behind the Iron Curtain, and then suddenly appeared in the United State would not raise J. Edgar Hoover’s…
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A Person of Interest
This is Part 1 of A Person of Interest. Read Part 2 here. Once my feet had touched American soil there was a sense of relief. A cathartic sensation never before or since experienced flushed my veins. My nightmare in the USSR was over. I was a free man – free from the Soviet sham,…