Hope in the Face of Adversity with Lilia Kaczynski

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LINKS:
Open Fields and Iron Curtains book
Lilia's website
YouTube episode
Lilia Kleczinski gives a haunting account of her early life, born prematurely and held in a hospital for her first three years. She was then moved to a military ground turned orphanage in Moldova which became home to thousands of unwanted children due to the huge gender disparity following WWII. The daily abuse and harsh regimen defined her childhood, living under the oppressive rule of the regime and the widespread corruption.
Lilia Klaczynski now resides in Madison County with her husband and four children however her life began much differently.
In 1981 Moldova, an economically challenged area then incorporated into the former Soviet Union as written about in her book Open Fields and Iron Curtains she was abandoned at birth before being moved into an orphanage which housed roughly 800 children.
Although she experienced many hardships including health struggles and emotional trauma, Klaczinski tells us that there were glimmers of hope which kept her going.
In the communist times the food was already becoming scarce as soon as the communism came down and there was no more food coming in, no more clothes coming in, so we would run off to the fields and orchards nearby—well nearby means many kilometers away but for us it was considered nearby and it was our place of freedom, our place of just expressing ourselves, and finding ourselves.
Outside of that closed zone where the discipline and the structure
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