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I was an ordinary Soviet person and I didn’t have to change any habits when I married a non-Jewish wife. Religious habits were not appreciated at the time. We celebrated Soviet holidays at home and at work. We enjoyed meeting with friends. I had Jewish, Ukrainian, Russian and Hungarian friends. I never bothered about nationality. I’ve always valued human virtues. We spent vacations visiting my father in Tomashpol. He was very happy to see us, but he couldn’t accept my wife into his heart only because she was not a Jew.
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Arkadi Yurkovetski