Doctor Gave My Pregnant Wife 3 Months to Live – Then We Escaped Stalin’s Russia
In 1948, as we prepared to leave the Soviet Union after years of hardship, Helena suddenly fell ill. The doctor diagnosed a serious heart condition and gave her just three months to live. What happened next was even more shocking — we discovered she was actually pregnant. This is the dramatic final chapter of our WWII survival: defending theses at the Timiryazev Academy, passport nightmares at the KGB and Polish embassy, a brutal fall on the train to Warsaw leaving me heavily bandaged, returning to a destroyed Poland, reuniting with friends, starting work as agronomists, and beginning our new…
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