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Walter Parchomenko

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Website

http://aweakamerican.com

Genre

Travel Humor, Slavic Studies

Member Since

March 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/weakamerican

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Walter Parchomenko, a distinguished college professor and civil servant in Washington, D.C. for more than 25 years, was born in a German refugee camp. He is the son of Ukrainian peasants, World War II refugees deported from their war-torn Ukrainian village to forced labor in Germany. After a grueling crossing of the Atlantic in the storage of an ocean liner packed with Slavic refugees, he entered the US (just 12 months old at the time) through Ellis Island’s newly reopened reception center. Parchomenko grew up in snowy Rochester, New York and eventually fled his Slavic mother’s strict regime, KGB-like Gulag to simultaneously work and attend graduate school in Washington. He directed a U.S. government, graduate school program in Russian and ...more

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In your bride guide, p.54, you suggest the guy to arrange meetings with those from the Elena's models in Kiev Connection office. Will they allow the guy to do so? Daniel chan

Hello Daniel,

I would be glad to clarify my suggestion of linking a few selections made on Elena’s Models with the purchase of Kiev Connections’ Matchmaking Service run by staff member Veronika.

I’m not suggesting that you hold lengthy meetings with any Elena Model selection in Kiev Connections’ office. Rather, that you simply meet them there briefly so that they can see you are in Kyiv using the s

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Walter Parchomenko’s books

Average rating: 3.76 · 113 ratings · 30 reviews · 3 distinct works

	A Weak American in Russia & Ukraine: Adventures and Misadventures Living among the Natives 3.69 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ukrainian & Russian Bride Guide: Dangers & Joys Awaiting Western Men 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soviet Images of Dissidents and Nonconformists it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Walter’s Quotes

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies”
― Erich Fromm

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“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

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“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.”
― George Carlin

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