A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka
by Lev Golinkin
Popularity 3
Recounts the author's experiences as a young boy fleeing persecution in the late eighties Soviet Union, and his later return to Austria and Eastern Europe as an American adult to track down those who helped his family escape and thank them.
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