ASIN: B00CKYN204
Publisher: Paulina Zelitsky, Paul Weinzweig
Pages: 347
A literate and beautifully written account of a Jewish girl growing up in Stalin's Russia and Castro’s Cuba. Her creative approach to the problems of survival and achievement under rigid dictatorships is an example of women's determination and achievement. Paulina's personal crisis came after a violent rape attempt by her Soviet supervisor at work. This moment became a powerful motivator to overcome obstacles and demonstrated the power and potential of the human spirit. Finding herself embroiled in a Cold War drama on the Island of Cuba where Soviet and American military forces are vying for supremacy during a secret nuclear confrontation, Paulina decided on a dangerous escape to freedom with her two small children rather than become an obedient slave and an informant for a cruel and rogue tyrannical state.When in 1970 the KGB attempted to conscript Paulina as an informant, she defected ...
