Since then. he has made every effort to find work to avoid charges of "parasitism." Yevgenys life has been a difficult one. His father. Maurice Yakir. who helped to form the Red Air Force after the revolution and rose to the rank of general. was executed in 1937 during Stalins Great Purge. Yevgenys mother was deported to Siberia and managed to survive 16 grueling years of hard labor in the Gulag Archipelago. Separated from his mother at the age of 6. Yevgeny was raised by his maternal grandmother. under an assumed name. It was only after Stalins death and his fathers posthumous "rehabilitation" by Khrushchev that Yevgeny felt it safe to use his own name.
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