Pepper and my self.. the Honorable Vladimir Kuhn vo: Poushental. for his establishment a Richmond. Maine. in the beautiful Ken nebec Valley. of a colony of Russian who. in general. have been the victims c ..!communism in their native land. Som were White Russians dispersed by th Bolsheviks throughout the world aft( the revolution of 50 years agosome ai World War II refugees who fougl .nazism and communism 20 years agosome are former concentration inmates tC and Red army soldiers and White Corps s officers of the. old Imperial czarist armysome displaced Poles and Ukrain- h ians bonded by similar language. cus- s toms. and religion. All have found a new d home in this stimulating part of Amer- w ica. a new opportunity for a life in free- v dom and new satisfactions through the C initiative. enterprise. yision. and generos- t ity of this great AmericanVladimir vona C Poushental. former Russian baron and I flying officer as well as one of the found- a ers of New Yorks Alexander Nevsky r Foundation. t Baron von Poushental found in Maine I what he thought was a great similarity of landscape and climate to that of cen.tral Russia and set about developing this truly -inspiring community. The great story of Baron von Poushentals accomplishments is told in the spring 1967 issue of Maine Digest in an article entitled "Russian Easter at Richmond" and in the December 1958 issue of the I Wirthmore Co. magazine in an article entitled "Mr. Parkers Russian Refugees." and in the book "Richmond on the Kennebec" by John Daly Fleming. published by the Richmond Historical Committee in February 1966. beginning at page 180. And notable reference is made to this development and to the great work of Baron and Baroness von Poushental in the establishment and support of this unique Russian colony in the column of Mrs. Helen Wells in the Miami Herald of Sunday.
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Russians in general are victims of communism.