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

the young people in order to send them to Germany to work like slaves. She tried to

escape from her slave-holder and ended up in a concentration camp.

In 1941 she had graduated from the Kharkov medical institute, married and then
found herself in a concentration camp instead of working in a hospital. She was Russian,
as were millions of other young girls and boys who were sent to Germany by force.
When the war ended she got into a camp for displaced persons in the western sector of
Germany. She was afraid of returning to her Mother-land and being sent to a Soviet
concentration camp, from which she would not be lucky to get out alive.

She visited the USSR only at the end of the 80’s, at the time of perestroika. It
happened that Cyril Kasatkin knew her and asked her to meet me on account of her
incurable, from the medical point of view, disease. As I have already said, I was in
Germany in 1990 for almost three months and was invited to visit this country again.
But it happened that now Svetlana and I had two invitations to come to San Francisco
(Vera Ivanovna was the second one) and we decided to go to the USA, because I had
already visited Germany, I would like to see far away America, so would Svetlana.

We promised Vera Ivanovna that we would come to the USA. One very telling
argument for doing this was Vera Ivanovna’s words that a lot of potential patients were
waiting for me in San Francisco. I assumed that she mingled in a circle of rich people
and I would have patients able to pay for my work. This train of thought, although quite
logical, had nothing to do with the reality, but not because there were no rich persons in
Vera Ivanovna’s circle… Well, I will tell about it when it comes to it.

In September, 1991 Svetlana and I still lived in Moscow and I prepared my second
visit to Archangelsk. At the end of September Svetlana went home for several days to
visit her parents and son. From time to time I called Dmitry Rasskazov on account of
making necessary preparations for my course for doctors, about which we had agreed on
my first visit. Nadezda Yakovlevna Anshukova, the head physician of the Archangelsk
medicinal-prophylactic health centre, took an active part in the organization of this

course. It was she who shouldered all the difficulties of this.

Two days before my arrival to Archangelsk Dmitry Rasskazov called me to specify
the last details of my schedule and asked whether I could do something with the water
contamination in Archangelsk region? The situation was so uncared-for that the water
in the rivers and lakes of the region had become acid.
Acid rain had now become “normal”, the fish appeared on the surface belly up; in
the delta of the Dvina River the acid water destroyed the flora and fauna of the White
Sea. In short, there was an ecological catastrophe, which happened because of waste
products, which the industrial enterprises of the region disposed of carelessly feeling
zero responsibility for the consequences of their actions. In the course of time the
ecological situation in Archangelsk region became critical.

Dmitry Rasskazov described this situation and asked whether I could do something
about it. I promised to try. In fact, it is possible to solve any problem, if one can find the
right key. I had succeeded in solving very serious problems successfully, about which I
have already written. There-fore, I saw no reason why I would be unable to solve this
one.

I decided not to put it off for a long time and began to work on it. Svetlana helped
me with this work. I used the same tactics, which I had used when solving the problem

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