Allan Alexander
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Allan Alexander

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Allan Jacob Alexander was born on February 1st, 1945 in Moscow, the capital of the former Soviet Union. The fresh scars of recently ended WWII marred his childhood with widespread poverty, lingering hunger, food rationing, and a havoc of overpopulated communal apartments. The arduous attributes of devastated post-war country had casted an indelible shadow upon Allan’s adolescent years. His family like majority of families around that time lost their loved ones. Some did not come back from the battlefield, the others fell victim to massive repressions of Stalin’s reign. Allan grew up in a totalitarian State, where just a desire to think freely was nearly a crime on par with treason, and being born Jewish was more than a mere hindrance. He recalls his high school years painted in painfully ugly collars of open and frequently militant anti-Semitism. In spite of it all, Allan was raised to be an optimist full of hope for a better future. He started to write poetry. A few years later some literary critics recognized him as an inspiring and promising young author. Coming of age, he dreamt of being a physician and beat the odds of Jewish admission quota by being accepted to the Medical School. His studies however were interrupted by a six-month, politically motivated incarceration. After his release and reinstatement to the Medical School Allan was introduced to a group of Human Rights activists. He became intricately involved in the struggle for Soviet Jewry freedom to emigrate. On June 24th of 1975, Allan together with his wife and their young son were able to escape the Soviet Union. Forced to leave everything behind, they arrived to the United States of America bringing with them just a couple of suitcases, thirty three dollars, and a lot of dreams. Today, all three of them are successful practicing physicians living their dream in beautiful and sunny St. Petersburg, Florida.
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