Word: polovchak
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...being forced to return to the Soviet Union. In Chicago, most observers regret the confrontation between parent and child, family and state. As Kathy Bereza, a member of Chicago's Ukrainian Baptist Church, said: "We have sympathy for both sides. It is a tragedy. If only Michael Polovchak had given himself more of a chance to find out about life here...
...Michael Polovchak, a bus driver in Sambur, a Soviet town in the western Ukraine, had wanted to join his relatives in the U.S. so much, and for so long, that he petitioned Moscow 18 times for permission to emigrate. Finally last December approval came, and Polovchak, 42, brought his wife Anna and their three children to Chicago. He worked as a factory janitor, she as a cleaner in a hospital. But neither formed close ties with the Windy City's large community of Ukrainians, many of whom were World War II refugees, and Michael soon began to complain: Chicago...
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