(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Walter Polovchak — the 12-year-old Ukrainian boy who refused to return with his parents to the Soviet Union in 1980 — is speaking out about the crisis in his native country.
Now a 54-year-old resident of the suburbs, Polovchak said he fears Russian domination will return his native country. He also said Russia’s larger goal is to dominate parts of Eastern Europe once controlled by the former Soviet Union.
“Russia lost the Cold War, and I think they’re trying to have a second chance at it this time around,” he told WBBM Newsradio on Wednesday. “Russia’s not going to stop with Ukraine, and that’s the big concern.”
Polovchak is urging the United States and its allies to discourage Russian ambitions by increasing economic sanctions against Russia and providing more military aid to Ukraine.
He said he fears Ukraine will return to the type of repression he fled as a child.
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