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| Entry tags: | russia, ukraine, ww3 |
Lillian Alling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_A
Eastern European immigrant to the United States, who in the 1920s attempted a return by foot to her homeland. Her four-year-long journey started in New York, and went westward across Canada, then north through British Columbia, the Yukon, and then west again through Alaska. Whether she successfully crossed the Bering Strait to Russia is unknown.
One of the earliest articles recounting her journey, published in a 1943 issue of The Beaver, simply stated Alling "could not stand the loneliness and the nostalgia any longer ... Siberia was her objective. Once there, among her own people, it would be easy to arrange passage from Vladivostok to her beloved steppes. She could almost hear the deep-toned laughs of the peasants at the market place and the tinkle of the music for the dance."[4]: 15
According to a 1949 article in Coronet, Alling had been sent by her family to the United States in the 1920s to check if they could find a safe refuge there following the Russian Revolution; she began her journey upon hearing that her family had been jailed.[5]: 60–61
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilli
During a job interview a Russian producer of pornographic films tells Lillian he cannot hire her because she overstayed her visa, besides she does not speak English. He suggests Russia is the new Land of Opportunities and advises her to go back to her home country.
After Lillian finds a map of North America in an empty weekend home, her endeavor gradually takes shape. She seems determined to walk across the North American continent and to reach Russia via the Bering Strait.
