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Leo Czantiloff is a
reporter and sometime columnist for the New York Daily News
and is given the opportunity to go to Russia and check out
the situation. This is made possible by his uncle and namesake,
who would like to know if he should relocate to the country
he left as a deserter from the Russian Army during World War
One. Leo has learned the Russian language from his father
and two years of study at Berlitz, so he is able to mix with
the people and begins making studies of various individuals.
Early on, he becomes enamored with a beautiful widow and soon
he has a wife and family. He is approached by a CIA agent
and becomes a courier for them feeding misleading documents
to the KGB from the American Embassy. He gets acquainted with
other reporters and editors in Pravda and begins writing columns
for them. Then he is accused of spying and is thrown in Lubianka
Prison, but manages to be released after a few weeks. Leo
spends his time writing columns for Pravda on various courses
of action which he believes would improve the lives of the
Russians, based mostly on what any American would know. He
brings people from Columbia University to teach courses in
business administration at various universities, imports dogs
which are used to chase away bears from farms adjacent to
the forest land rather than shooting them. His adopted son
is nearsighted and wants to follow in the footsteps of his
father who was a test pilot in the Russian Aif Force. After
the boy reaches sixteen, he is administered the eye operation
and passes the physical examination required of all prospective
pilots. There is a daughter who is a carbon copy of her beautiful
mother and becomes an actress. A treasure of two, large gold
bars and a collection of gold coins is found in the house
which Leo's uncle has bought for them to live in. The step
son becomes interested in business and politics and becomes
successful in the feeder airline business, rehabilitating
a block of apartments and in the engineering construction
management business, building oil and gas pipelines. Like
all of my stories, it ends with everyone living happily ever
after.
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