Back to USSR: July 1985 The boy that stayed.

In July 1985 “Izvestia” suddenly returned to Polovchak affair. The article was named “A tragedy of Polovchak family”.

 This interest to Walter Polovchak was strange, as by 1985 the case was clear and it was practically lost by USSR.

It was a story about a boy - son of Russian emigrants, who planned to return back to USSR from USA, but in 1980 the boy left parents and filed an application for asylym with the INS. It was granted.

You can read about this case in Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Polovchak,

or at Oadam blog (in Russian)  http://oadam.livejournal.com/337275.html?thread=42300539

“Izvestia” says: “US Administration is acting inhuman, abridging son from parents.”

Several month later 17 y.o. Walter Polovchak became a U.S. citizen, and chances to return him back became zero.

But this boy case is interesting for us, as he became a first of “child-defectors”, whose cases came next.

In 2000-10-th there were several much discussed affairs, when children of Russian emigrants were taken away by Child Protection services in different European countries.

This stories were widely covered in Russian mass media and strengthened russian's distrust to modern Western society.

Foto: http://oadam.livejournal.com/337275.html?thread=42300539

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