[ExI] ivanov part 3

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> > On Behalf Of John Clark via extropy-chat

 

>… He learned that the commies had come into a nearby fishing village.  He realized it was only a matter of time before they caught him, so he came up with a desperate plan: he would risk it all, defect to the USA.  spike

 

Major Ivanov had to backtrack into danger in disguise as an Inuit fisherman, while there were Soviet army guys behind, looking for him.  He managed to get a kayak and paddle it thirty miles across, around the north side of a pair of islands in the Bering Strait.  He had to get around the commie island to the American-owned island.  They made it that far.  They hid out there.  Next day the wind was right, so they went on over to the American side, never being spotted. 

 

Major Ivanov explained the whole story.  The Americans didn’t know what to do.  They let him go on.  He eventually ended up in Nome Alaska, where young Ivanov was born.  The major got a job as a bookkeeper, then later with an oil storage company.  In the late 70s, when young Ivanov was starting high school, the family moved to San Jose CA.

 

John and I don’t see things the same way, but that movie he suggested was truly funny, and so very dark comedy, if you come at it in the right frame of mind.  Hearing young Ivanov describe the tribulations his father endured, that Death of Stalin movie has the ring of truth. 

 

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