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Young Valery Alexandrovich Lysikov's ambition was to become an airplane pilot. It seemed a logical wish, since Valery's father was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet air force. But Stern Disciplinarian Lysikov Sr. disapproved of his son's ambition, as he disapproved of almost everything else about the boy. He might have disapproved even more had he known that Valery's real wish was to become an American pilot. As a teen-ager in Stalingrad, and later in the East zone of Berlin, Valery was as devoutly pro-American as his non-proletarian father...
...train from East Berlin, but the Communist police plucked him off and sent him back. Later, an official at the Soviet School No. i called him in and showed him a letter directed to his father, who was on a trip to Moscow. The letter advised Lt. Col. Lysikov that Valery had fallen prey to "dangerous American influences," and had been formally condemned for them by the local youth group. In the corridors after the interview, Valery heard a girl whisper that he was going to be sent back to Russia...
...concentration camps." At the end of 45 minutes, the boy, nervous and angry, stalked out of the room. Valery's mother, close to tears, asked permission to talk to her son alone. Valery came back. He was calmer then, but no less intransigent. After ten minutes, Mme. Lysikov returned to her husband. "It is no use," she said. "We may as well go home...
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