For the first time I really got into my next door neighbors background, and got interrupted as it got fascinating. Unbelievable what this country has gone through, her life was a regular gulag archipelago. I would like to know more, but let me share what she was saying... first of all, she is probably about 75 years old, that is my guess. Well when I first met her, she would only speak English with me. I was amazed she spoke it, but found out she was an English teacher at the Polytechnic. When I first met her she said she is Ukranian, but that is only a quarter of it. Although her father is half Ukranian, half Polish, and her mother is 100% Armenian, and she lives in Armenia, and her husband (passed away) was Armenian, she does not consider herself Armenian. In any case, much of her family was wiped out by communists for being bourgeois businessmen with foreign educations/businesses. Her husband was as I said Armenian, born in Iran, one of ten kids. He somehow got taken into some kind of orphanage or school and got moved to the USA. From there, he moved to the Soviet Union in Stalins time because he loved Armenia so much. He was, of course sent to Siberia. I do not know what happened to him because we were interupted, but I intent to find out...