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Nicolai Levashov. The Mirror of My Soul. Vol. 1. Born in the USSR

           36. Parasites attack again ............................................................................................................................... 300
           37. The silver thread ........................................................................................................................................ 304
           38. The second visit to Archangelsk ............................................................................................................... 317
           39. Moscow fuss ............................................................................................................................................... 330

           40. Departure to the USA................................................................................................................................ 335















                Preface
                There  are  several  reasons  why  I  decided  to  write  my  own  biography.  First,
           whenever I had occasion to talk about some events of my life, my stories would often
           come back to me in the form of the most unimaginable “folklore.” In fact, my tales took
           on such “facts” and colorations that even I listened to them with interest.

                  The second reason that impelled to such a “feat” was the fact that every now and

           then  some-one  would  appear  and  offer  to  write  my  biography—and  every  time
           something stopped me. Once I even agreed to have an American woman author garner
           my recollections onto audiocassettes and spent several days with her recording them.
           But then I changed my mind and gave up the offer.

                First of all, I had to expend a lot of time describing and explaining events that had
           happened to me. Secondly, to my utter astonishment, writers and journalists managed to
           distort everything despite their having my recorded recollections: this would include
           exaggerating, distorting facts and sometimes simply telling bare-faced lies. Therefore,
           when  Dmitri  Baida,  the  administrator  of  my  web  site,  suggested  that  I  write  the
           biography myself, I decided to do just that. And—as the process unfolded, it also became

           the interpretation of my views on life.

                  I thought that if my life and my modus vivendi were interesting to people, then
           nobody was more qualified than I to convey what and when things happened in my life,
           what I thought as to one or another situation, what I felt and experienced. Certainly,
           everything that I am about to describe will be highly subjective and will reflect the outer
           world through my own eyes. But despite all this, I will try to reflect everything with
           maximum objectivity, as much as possible. As this is my biography, nobody will do it
           better than I, and if there is any distortion it will be my distortion of my own biography,
           which is better than distortions made by someone else.

                                                                                      Nicolai Levashov



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