RE: [Cz-L] Resilience

Dear Mordecai,

No, we haven't enjoyed the Soviet period and my parents left as soon as =
they had a chance to do so. But we had to adapt and this is a long =
story.

It was an interesting period in the history of Cz and I would like the =
website to have more information about Cz of 1945-1990s. At least the =
same interest they have in the current Ukrainian present and in the =
Austrian and Romanian past.

Historically, Cz once again became a part of a huge empire. People who =
stayed had to gain new insights and to adapt to a new ideology, new =
language and culture and, to explore the geographical vastness of USSR.

I was born after Stalin's death (or murder, as the new historical =
evidence shows), in Khrushchev times, when the repressions stopped.=20

On a personal level I have benefited from an excellent European =
education and I have enjoyed living in a beautiful, multicultural city =
among one of the largest Jewish population any given geographical place =
has ever had.

I craved freedom and we never adapted the communist ideology to our Cz =
thinking. Most of us just waited for an opportunity to leave which my =
father and his family missed returning from Siberian exile in 1948.

Serah Kraft
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  So you actually "enjoyed" the Soviet period - it will be interesting =
to learn from you a little about it
  We were lucky to leave in 1945 and made aliya in 1947
  =20
  Shabbat Shalom
  =20
  Mordecai

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Received on 2013-02-01 16:45:52