From Bessarabia To... (Two Parts‪)‬

On the background of the history's dramatic events (the final years of Bessarabia as a part of the Kingdom of Romania, the inclusion of Moldavia into the USSR, World War Two, and the Soviet years after the war until the Perestroika), a personal drama of the author's life evolves - his study in a Kishinev gymnasium before the Soviets, Soviet repressions within the family, escape from the warzone at the beginning of the war, evacuation to Kazakhstan, return to Kishinev after the war, study in the medical school, work as a doctor in a remote Moldavian village, and dramatical live changes after a move to central Russia.