My Distant Cousin Was Shot By Bolsheviks

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  1. Hal Pollner

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    Hello,

    My late mother was born in the Ukraine, which was part of Czarist Russia, in 1912.

    She came to America with her Father in 1923 after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, aboard the SS Olympic, which was the sister ship to the Titanic, but launched a year earlier. Both ships were built side-by side in a Belfast, Ireland shipyard.

    I had a distant cousin from the Old Country, which my mother showed me in a faded old photograph when I was a young boy in the 1940's.

    This young man was shot for being a White Russian Counter-Revolutionary during the October, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, during which the Czar and his family were executed and Lenin became the first leader of the Communist Party.

    That's all I know of this chapter of my Family History...I think it's pretty interesting!

    Hal
     
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