SPEAKER TOM MOORADIAN: "LOVE, BASKETBALL, AND THE KGB"
Gustavus Adolphus College News
Feb 7 2010
Tom Mooradian, author of "Love, Basketball and the KGB" will share his
story of spending 13 years behind the Iron Curtain after volunteering
to repatriate to Soviet Armenia as a teenager. He went from being a
Detroit basketball star and promising student to a Soviet citizen
trapped in bread lines and unable to leave the USSR. Mooradian’s
basketball prowess captured the hearts of the Soviet people and
probably saved his life. Miraculously surviving 13 years behind
the Iron Curtain, he had the opportunity to see what no foreign
correspondent, no western journalist, no diplomat was permitted to
see: the Soviet Union as the Soviets lived. His story has it all:
adventure, danger, suspense, love.