Nash Holos Nanaimo 2020-0318 Part 2

On Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, an interview with Paulina Zelitsky, who defected from the USSR to Canada in a daring escape at Gander airport with her children in 1971. In Part 1, we learned why Paulina felt her life was in danger while working on a Soviet naval base in Cuba, and becoming privy to the top-secret operations of the little-known second Cuban Missile Crisis in the late 1960s. Defection was also dangerous, but she considered it less dangerous than staying. After a career working as a civil engineer in Canada, she retired and wrote her memoirs. In Part 2 of this interview, she describes her harrowing experience defecting and adapting to a strange country, and why recent developments in Cuba have convinced her that we are now facing a third Cuban Missile Crisis.

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