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I Am Here For Good
What was July 31, 1991 in History? - Russia & US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact - Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft - The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other. It was also a very important day for our family. It marked the end of over 2 years of waiting for the day, when we passed the last Border Patrol officer and boarded the plane to America. It was shortly after midnight, we were very tired of days, weeks and months of waiting, believing this day would come, and losing faith…and then hoping again… The level of anxiety was hardly bearable. What if they take us off the plane, what if they stop the plane? And when the plane went airborne, it was a huge sigh of relief… It was over. We left the Soviet Union. We left it for good. The Soviet Union did not live long. 2 weeks later it fell apart, and Gorbachev's era ended with little fanfares. But it is not about Gorbachev...
We, a family of four, myself, my wife Olga, then 19-year old son Vadim, ... more

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