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Stalina

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When Stalina Folskaya flees her native Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, she sets out for America with her dreams - and her painful past - firmly in tow. In St Petersburg, Stalina was a trained …

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When Stalina Folskaya flees her native Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, she sets out for America with her dreams - and her painful past - firmly in tow. In St Petersburg, Stalina was a trained chemist, but in America, disillusioned with her profession she takes a job as a maid at the Liberty, a seedy, "short-stay" motel on the outskirts of Hartford, Connecticut.

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"When Stalina Folskaya flees her native Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, she sets out for America with her dreams - and her painful past - …"

— Margaret

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