It’s a long story, and one that indeed started in America, in an unusual American family. My grandfather, Earl Browder, was a labor union organizer from Wichita, Kansas. He was so good at his job that he was spotted by the Communists and invited to come to the Soviet Union in 1926. Not long after he got there, he did what most red-blooded American men do in Moscow: he met a good-looking Russian girl. Her name was Raisa Berkman. They fell in love and got married. They would have three boys; the first was my father, Felix, who was born in the Russian capital in July 1927.这是一个很长的故事，它确实始于美国，在一个不同寻常的美国家庭。我的祖父厄尔·布劳德是堪萨斯州威奇托市的工会组织者。他非常擅长自己的工作，以至于被共产党人发现，并于1926年被邀请来到苏联。在他到达莫斯科后不久，他做了在莫斯科的大多数美国红血男人做的事情：他遇到了一个漂亮的俄罗斯女孩。她的名字叫莱莎·伯克曼。他们相爱并结婚了。他们将有三个男孩；第一位是我的父亲费利克斯，他于1927年7月出生在俄罗斯首都。