A Tear in the Curtain

Dedication

Dedicated to

Vladimir Bukovsky

with deep respect and admiration: expelled from the Soviet Union after twelve years in the GULAG Archipelago, 1977,

author of

To Build a Castle, 1978,

and

Moscow Trial, 1996,

Candidate in the Presidential election campaign in Russia, 2007-2008

‘Valiant for Truth’

This is the story of three families:

A Hungarian family

Tibor, Helena and Giori

And their mother Eva;

A Russian family

Andrei,

His parents Igor and Natalya

And his grandmother, ‘Babushka’,

and her friend Dmitry;

and

A British family

Margaret, her children Stephen and Elizabeth,

Her parents John and Barbara Durham,

And their Hungarian friends Geza and Miriam