From Ukraine to LA: How Mila Kunis' family fled the Soviet Union when she was 7 years old
08.03.2022 - 10:43
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Mila Kunis, born Milena Markovna Kunis, is a proud Ukrainian, originally from Chernivtsi. Her Jewish family fled Ukraine, which at the time was a Soviet republic, when she was only seven years old in 1991, right before its fall. Her father Mark was a mechanical engineer in Ukraine and her mother Elvira was a physics teacher. She has previously cited antisemitism in the Soviet Union as one of the reasons her family fled the country. In 2011, the successful actress opened up to the Daily Telegraph about her early childhood.
Mila Kunis, born Milena Markovna Kunis, is a proud Ukrainian, originally from Chernivtsi. (Reuters) "My whole family was in the Holocaust. My grandparents passed and not many survived," she said. "After the Holocaust, in Russia you were not allowed to be religious.
So my parents raised me to know I was Jewish. You know who you are inside. When I was in school you would still see antisemitic signs." "One of my friends who grew up in Russia, she was in second grade.
She came home one day crying. Her mother asked why and she said on the back of her seat there was a swastika.This is a country that obviously does not want you,: Kunis added. Her Jewish family fled Ukraine, which at the time was a Soviet republic, when she was only seven years old in 1991, right before its fall. (Reuters, File) In an interview with Glamour magazine in 2016, Kunis detailed the struggles her parents endured to give herself and her brother Michael, now 46, a new life. "My parents went through hell and back.They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that’s it," she said in the interview. "My parents, for years, worked full-time and went to college full-time.They would go to night school to learn
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