Page 4 - The Cold War Generator by Steven Anderson - Flip It & Read It

To fund the army, from time to time, besides the often ice-blackouts caused by freezing

temperatures, leaders of URSS used to order power blackouts for parts of the country, leaving

millions of citizens to freeze in darkness up to days at a time...

Imagine living for who-know-how-many days without electricity... eating only can-food (and

that's if you can find it in remote areas) not being able to heat your home during cold nights

and the kids doing their homework at candlelight...

Knowing his family's situation and having no possibility of getting them across the border in

those times, Alexander focused his research on alternative energy... hoping to prevent the

monthly famine they were going through...

He struggled for years to find a viable solution, but failed time after time. Every prototype he

invented needed some kind of fuel, which was very hard to be found in Yakutsk and not only...

Moreover, he couldn't smuggle the device into the country, so...

He needed to make clear and simple instructions for his

father to build it...

With common things lying around his house, after many sleepless nights and endless tests, he

finally came up with something...

After decades of barely contacting his parents, each time promising them to at least ease their

suffering, on 29th of December 1989 he got the devastating news about his father's death...

Risking his rights in Putin’s Russia, he flew to Yakutsk to see to his beloved saviour one last

time and pay his respects. But, upon arrival, the Federal Security Service of Russia

captured him and discovered the blueprints he was carrying...

After an unfair trial, he was silenced. The plans were burnt… rumours say on Putin’s orders,

and his whole family was imprisoned...

Yet, this was not the end for this unique device. The original plans were still laying hidden

in his basement back in the U.S...