"Anna’s father had been purged by Stalin before the war for refusing to work on a collective farm, but Boris didn’t care. In 1946, the couple got married in Russia.
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Every time Boris came home, Anna was always there waiting for him. But after just three nights as husband and wife, the newlyweds were parted when Boris had to return to his army unit.
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Whilst Boris was away, Anna and her family were forced to leave their home as they had been classed as the enemies of the state. Forced into internal exile in Siberia, Anna was no longer there waiting in front of the house when Boris returned and nobody knew where she had gone.
"She was always smiling for me when I came home, but this time there was no sign of her. Nobody knew where they are, or what happened to Anna. That’s how we lost any track of each other,” recalled Boris on his painful memories.
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After being separated, both Anna and Boris were pressured by their families to remarry. Anna’s mother went as far as telling Anna that Boris has forgotten about her, that’s why there were no more letters came.
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didn’t believe it and I longed for him so much. But one day I got back home from work at a timber plant and my mother had burned all Boris’ earlier letters, poems, and pictures—including our wedding pictures,” told Anna.
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Both Anna and Boris finally gave-in after quite some time and remarried. But they never forget each other. Boris later became a writer—even wrote a book dedicated to the woman he got married as a young soldier, Anna. Anna remarried and gave birth to a son. But she later divorced and not long after—lost her son too.
Boris also divorced after remarried and even went to prison at some points.
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After more than 60 years of separation, Anna and Boris found each other by chance in 2007. Boris had returned home to visit his parents’ graves and as he stepped out of the car, he saw Anna—standing outside of the house that they had spent their three nights as a married couple.
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"I thought my eyes were playing games with me, I saw this familiar looking man approaching me, his eyes gazing at me. My heart jumped. I knew it was him. I was crying with joy!” told Anna.
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“I ran up to her and said: ‘My darling, I’ve been waiting for you for so long. My wife, my life’,” said Boris.
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http://www.gtgoodtimes(DOTCOM)/2019/03/16/russian-couple-separated-by-war-reunited-and-remarried-after-more-than-60-years-apart/
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Every time Boris came home, Anna was always there waiting for him. But after just three nights as husband and wife, the newlyweds were parted when Boris had to return to his army unit.
.
Whilst Boris was away, Anna and her family were forced to leave their home as they had been classed as the enemies of the state. Forced into internal exile in Siberia, Anna was no longer there waiting in front of the house when Boris returned and nobody knew where she had gone.
.
After being separated, both Anna and Boris were pressured by their families to remarry. Anna’s mother went as far as telling Anna that Boris has forgotten about her, that’s why there were no more letters came.
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didn’t believe it and I longed for him so much. But one day I got back home from work at a timber plant and my mother had burned all Boris’ earlier letters, poems, and pictures—including our wedding pictures,” told Anna.
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Both Anna and Boris finally gave-in after quite some time and remarried. But they never forget each other. Boris later became a writer—even wrote a book dedicated to the woman he got married as a young soldier, Anna. Anna remarried and gave birth to a son. But she later divorced and not long after—lost her son too.
.
After more than 60 years of separation, Anna and Boris found each other by chance in 2007. Boris had returned home to visit his parents’ graves and as he stepped out of the car, he saw Anna—standing outside of the house that they had spent their three nights as a married couple.
.
"I thought my eyes were playing games with me, I saw this familiar looking man approaching me, his eyes gazing at me. My heart jumped. I knew it was him. I was crying with joy!” told Anna.
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“I ran up to her and said: ‘My darling, I’ve been waiting for you for so long. My wife, my life’,” said Boris.
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http://www.gtgoodtimes(DOTCOM)/2019/03/16/russian-couple-separated-by-war-reunited-and-remarried-after-more-than-60-years-apart/