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Article: Ljuba Toupal: an American success story. (Czechoslovakian refugee finds career in insurance industry)
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- National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
- Article date:
- March 23, 1992
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"We could hear the tanks coming all night; it's a sound you'll never forget. I was just a kid way, way from home. The radio was gone. Soldiers were everywhere. We were used to seeing Russian uniforms in parades, and conditioned not to think of them as our enemies, but then we heard about them shooting people in the villages. It was nationwide humiliation."
Ljuba Toupal was only 13 years old when Russian tanks poured over the border into Czechoslovakia on Aug. 21, 1968, but she realized then that she would never be satisfied with life under a totalitarian regime.
Her worst fears were realized as the Soviet-backed Czechoslovakian government tightened its ...