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Show FEBRUARY/MARCH 2007 es=FACES of PEI By Michael Brohm He Walked in Blood up to his Shoelaces. He had survived World War II. He was 18 years old and started the walk home from the front. For hundreds of miles he saw devastation, walking, wondering whether his family and his town, had survived. Young Ballerina...As Hitler’s troops advanced, the Russian Ballet troupe was evacuated from Moscow. Half of the dancers went to St. Petersburg and half to Perm. After waiting out the war, the company returned to Moscow. But families and friendships had been started in Perm, and a world-class ballet remains there today. Stripper in V Since the col of the Soviet in 1991, citie become flus! rubles and “: man’s clubs’ appeared. Tl -is called The hole. The da: was nude wi arrived and through an i preter I aske had any clot could wear f photograph. Her pension from the state is $4 per month. The temperature was 20 below zero. There was no wooden door to the small house, just a large piece of brown felt, perhaps two inches thick. Pushing it to the side I entered the room. It was warm and orderly inside. She and her cat spend the winter in this room, waiting for spring to get back to the garden. To see “Yeste |