Leave Your Tears in Moscow

Leave Your Tears in Moscow

Barbara Armonas and her infant son, John, were caught in a deadly vise of World War II in Europe, sparked by Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin through their infamous Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. Hundreds of millions of lives were upended and well over 50 million were to die.

Instead of being able to rejoin her American husband and daughter, who had to return to the United States when the Soviet Union forcibly annexed Lithuania in 1940, Barbara, a native Lithuanian, was deported with her son to Siberia with tens of thousands of her countrymen.

She suffered additional punishment of a 25-year prison sentence for allegedly being â€œan American spy.â€

Her husband, John, and daughter, Donna, tried unsuccessfully for 22 years to have her released, until Donna managed to confront Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during his visit to the United States in 1959, pleading for the return of her mother and brother. Faced with the glare of live, national television, Khrushchev relented and the family was reunited in 1960.

Barbara Armonasâ€™ 22-year ordeal in the soviet concentration camp systemâ€”the dreaded GULAGâ€”is a rare and straightforward story, related with candor and underlying hope that the human spirit can survive any hardshipâ€”even the clamps of a vicious totalitarian system.

This 50th Anniversary Edition commemorates Barbaraâ€™s unbreakable spirit, memorializes her extraordinary lifeâ€”she died three days short of her 100th birthdayâ€”and harkens us to actively nurture our freedomâ€”because there still exist forces that challenge it every day.

Her account is particularly relevant today as more and more documents of the Stalinist years and the Soviet Union in general become available for public view and historical scrutiny.

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Meridia Publishers
Manufacturer	Meridia Publishers
NumberOfPages	182
PublicationDate	2011-11-23
Publisher	Meridia Publishers
ReleaseDate	2011-11-23
Studio	Meridia Publishers

Leave Your Tears in Moscow

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