Vladamir Dudlesak oral history interview, late 1990s

Interviewed by Walter Johnson: Topics discussed include Deudlasek's family background; education; Communism; living conditions; popular music as a teenager and playing in a band; oppression as a Jew and anti-Semitism; how college placement worked under the communists; serving time in the military; views on Russia; Jewish emigration in the 1970s and 1980s; other relatives that had already made it to the United States; how one had to go about getting passports and permission to leave a communist country; how Dudlasek met his wife; dating; the beginning of the fall of the USSR; preparations for moving; living in Austria and in Italy while waiting to go to the US; First impressions of the US/New York; going to college in the US and getting a job; sending his daughter to grade school in New York; visiting Atlanta for the first time; moving to Atlanta; problems in Latvia now; sponsoring his in-laws to come to the United States.