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All my ancestors on my mother’s side are from Belarus. Growing up in Moscow I used to visit my grandparents and my uncle’s family in Minsk, making my first trip to Belarus at the age of three in the early 1950s. Beginning in the early 1960s, my parents put me on the night-time Moscow-Minsk train to spend the two-week long winter break in Minsk. Overall, I have visited Belarus on 30+ occasions, usually spending weeks at a time. Nine of my Belarus trips were made after the breakup of the Soviet Union from my new home base in Radford, Virginia, United States, established in 1990. Meanwhile my Belarusian grandparents passed away, my uncle emigrated to Germany, and his children to Germany and Israel. But I kept going to Belarus whenever I had the chance because I had developed such a strong attachment to the country.
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Ioffe, G. (2014). Introduction. In: Reassessing Lukashenka. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137436757_1
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