Wife, two kids, house in the suburbs of Chicago, job as an office manager for the last 20 years. The life of Volodymyr, or Walter, Polovchak sounds like a completely ordinary existence of a Midwestern American.
RFE/RL: ‘Youngest Soviet defector’ tells his tale nearly 40 years later
A picture shows Walter Polovchak (L), who, as a child, became the center of the legal case Polovchak v. Meese after he refused to leave the United States to return to Ukraine, then part of the USSR, with his parents.
