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Stolar said. "There wasn't a
single place you could go
without seeing Stalin.
Statues were everywhere.
Even the metro had niches
and nooks and corners all fill-
ed with pictures and statues
of Stalin. And every meeting
— any kind — absolutely had
to end with greetings and
praise for Stalin.
"I remember after glasnost
I saw a children's newspaper
(from the 1940s). The front-
page was all about Stalin. I
couldn't believe how awful it
was."
And when their leader died,
many Soviet citizens were in
a panic, Stolar said.
"I remember very well the
day we heard that Stalin died.
I was in a hospital. The radio
was on. All of a sudden there
was total silence.
"I thanked God the room
was dark or else people would
have seen the joy on my face.
"But there were a lot of peo-
ple who didn't understand
how the world could go on
now that Stalin was dead.
They didn't even think he
could die."
After the war, Stolar found
work as an announcer with
Radio Moscow where the
material he was given to read
was "stupid — unsuitable for
anyone outside the Soviet
Union."
Yet he never edited the copy
and was careful not to do
anything but read the words
placed before him. "If an an-
nouncer did so much as
sneeze during a broadcast, he
could be suspected of sending
a secret signal to the CIA."
Stolar often spent his even-
ings with his wife, Gita, and
his sister. Eva Stolar also had
been taken in 1951 to the
gulag, where she spent six
years. She later found a job as
a teacher and in 1952,
secured a position with the
Cinema Institute, where she
taught men and women in
the film industry.
Through his wife's brothers
in Minsk, Stolar learned of
Soviet citizens emigrating to
Israel. The men tried to con-
vince the Stolars to follow
suit.
Although his sister soon
after left for Israel, Stolar was
not interested. He was con-
tent with his good salary at
the radio station and led a
comfortable life.
But as he watched his son
grow, he realized he could
never be happy in the Soviet
Union. "How can you be hap-
py when everything around
you is false? So in I turned in
my Soviet citizenship, and I
was happy to get rid of it."
He and his wife secured ex-
it visas and were about to
board a plane out of Moscow
when they were stopped by
Soviet authorities. The of-
ficials claimed Stolar's wife's
employers had insisted she be
retained because of her access
to "secrets."
"So we went to her place of
work, and they had never said
my wife should be made to
stay."
For years, the Stolars
"hollered all the time to get
out." Abe Stolar even secured
an American passport. A
number of U.S. officials
rallied for his release.
"We would go often to the
(emigration) office and the
man behind the desk would
listen so beautifully. I
thought he would even start
to cry he was so moved. And
he would say, 'Come back
next month'
`I remember very
well the day we
heard that Stalin
died. I was in a
hospital. The radio
was on. All of a
sudden, there was
total silence. I
thanked God the
room was dark or
else people would
have seen the joy
on my face:
"So we would come back
next month and a new guy
would be there and nobody
knew what we were talking
about. Finally, we realized
nobody was listening at all."
In 1988, Stolar and his
family were finally granted
permission to emigrate. They
settled in Jerusalem, and
recently returned to visit
Stolar's hometown, Chicago.
He stopped by the house
where he once lived. "It was
so spic and span and shiny.
Everybody said it was the
slums, but compared to
Moscow, it's a palace."
He also returned to a
classroom where he had
studied; students asked for
his autograph.
Stolar said he doesn't miss
much of the Soviet Union —
just the long, white nights
and the good, inexpensive
theater tickets.
But most of his memories of
that life are painful.
"I remember after my
father disappeared, my
mother was told he had
received a 10-year sentence,"
he said. "I think that kept her
alive — waiting for his
release.
"Later, we found out he had
been executed in his cell. He
never even got out of jail." E