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NICK AND ZORKA: An Immigrant Couple’s Lesson about America …by Jim Stiles & Tonya Morton

Zorka (left) and Nick (right) Pavletich, sitting outside their motel, the Maverick Motel, in Raton, New Mexico.

When the Nazis fell in Yugoslavia, the regime that took its place was Tito’s Communist government. While it had some separation from the central USSR rule, life in communist Yugoslavia was a struggle. And Nick’s experiences in other countries as a soldier showed him that life could be different. He decided to leave Yugoslavia by any means necessary.