“An ordinary person in the USSR has no prospects except for being trapped in misery and trudging directly toward the grave. All of the friends and even casual acquaintances we talked to were in a bleak mood: there was nothing ahead, just emptiness. No goals to set, nothing to look forward to. We knew the “ideological educators” were the only ones pretending to have an answer…there was only one possible solution: to get out. But our children need a future. They cannot be left on the dead-end street of Soviet reality, with its terrible soul killing hopelessness and the total indifference of others- a reality in which no one gives a damn. We must save the children! We must escape no matter the cost. Our children must have a better life, It’s our duty.”
Vladimir Rott, “In Defiance of Fate Book 1 Joy from Sadness”, 2009.
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