Walter Polovchak was living in Chicago, Illinois when his parents decided to return to what was then part of the Soviet Union.
Walter Polovchak (born 3 October 1967) is a Ukrainian-American who, as a child, became the center of the legal case Polovchak v. Meese after refusing to leave the United States and return to Ukraine in the Soviet Union with his parents when he was 12.
Walter Polovchak | Polovchak v. Meese | Meese Report | Edwin Meese | Attorney General Meese's Commission on Pornography |
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