I am touched by the kind actions of my readers. One of my cyber-friends in Northern California sent me some artwork by her father, Michael Walusko (Mikhail Valusko), a refugee from Stalinist Russia. I am reproducing it below. I have asked her to provide some biographical detail on her dad, and I hope that she has some more paintings to share with us.
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