IT WON'T HURT

Lazarus 3 stories

Summary

Try to survive in the former USSR, when a KGB Major has enough evidence to put you away for life and the only way out of it is for your wife to satisfy his sexual desires or take drastic measures. Life was never about love, happiness, or prosperity, but rather always about survival, every day, hour, moment. Yuri Marian strongly believes that if he obeys the laws and lives quietly with his head in sand, he might survive big storms and small ones in the suffocating environment of a lawless country, but how long one can do that? He conducts a few seminars in front of a dozen trusted students, where he talks about basic freedoms; then flies to Moscow to meet with some old college friends. When upon return he is invited by a KGB major for a chat, it’s too late to change anything, and the decision he makes is rather spontaneous than well-considered. From that moment on, life becomes hell, filled with beatings, arrests, humiliations. He has to tell his wife Tatyana the real reason behind his trip to the Russia’s capitol – not to attend a conference as she’s been told before. She suffers more than he does…a lot more, but on a snowy December of 1990, as promised by the authorities, the Marian’s family finally boards the shiny Boeing 747 bound for New York…at a price Yuri could never imagine.