They gave 15 minutes to the training camp: how a family that moved to the USA from Russia lost everything and ended up on the street

Georgy and Evgenia Kuzmin are a young couple with a five-year-old boy and a one-year-old girl. The Kuzmin family came to the United States from Russia with enough capital to start a new life, but their fate was not as rosy as they had planned. The couple’s story was told by a user under the nickname Alena Z, who organized a fundraiser for the family on the portal GoFundMe.

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Soon after the move, George lost his job, which entailed many problems. The family lost their homes, and the police officers who expelled them gave them only 15 minutes to gather.

George currently works, but most of his work is for one or two days. Kuzmins are also in the process of seeking political asylum in the United States, but the case is still pending.

They are ready to do anything to change their lives. Georgy will be glad to have any job, Evgenia is also looking for a part-time job. According to Alena Z, “she is a very caring and tidy person and is ready to do cleaning, babysitting and other things.”

It all started with the fact that in Russia the couple ended up in the hospital. George and Eugene were mistaken for demonstrators when they went to work near the place where the protest rally took place. They were beaten, but Russian doctors refused to give any certificates, as they were afraid of being left without work. The fact is that the authorities secretly forbade doctors to record the fact of beating of demonstrators.

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After this incident, local authorities stated that the people participating in the demonstrations were unscrupulous parents and that children should be taken from them. The couple had no choice but to escape somewhere.

They arrived in Los Angeles without any connections. Initially, they only planned a vacation for two, but in the light of the situation, they took the children with them and left together.

The author of the fundraising campaign claims that the Kuzmins also lost part of their capital due to the fact that the first apartment, which they rented at a rather high price, turned out to be in a bad area (housing was rented by sublease from other immigrants). They also bought a used AS IS car, but in the end they found a lot of problems that were not reported by the seller, and a lot of money had to be invested in repairs.

“And when the family ran out of funds, they were embarrassed to ask for help on social networks or from friends. That’s how they ended up on the street,” summed up Alena Z.

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