Freedom's Child: A Courageous Teenager's Story of Fleeing His Parents and the Soviet Union to Live in America

By Walter Polovchak

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394559266
• ISBN13: 9780394559261
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

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A Courageous Defiance of Soviet Tyranny

Walter Polovchak comes from Sambor in the western Ukraine. My parents originate from a nearby town from before World War II, when the region had been part of Poland. Polovchak recounts the struggle he had as a child to stay in the US, although he was a minor and his parents wanted to return to the Soviet Union. Polovchak describes the role of the ACLU in attempting to block his attempt at not only staying in the US but also getting asylum. Polovchak asks why the ACLU never once undertook a defense of human rights in the Soviet Union. Good question. Polovchak summarizes his experience in a nutshell when he calls attention to the fact that it was actually the Soviet Union that was on trial as a result of his whole experience.