She was in her early thirties when her brother, Daniel, was shot after a spurned lover baselessly denounced him to the first incarnation of the KGB. She was twenty-nine when the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsar. My great-grandmother on my grandfather’s side was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1888. Mark Harrison One Day We Will Live Without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State (Hoover Institution Press, 2016)
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