The latest character is ready for his close up.
Gene Peterson
Yevgeny Petrov left the Ukraine under extreme duress. As outspoken as a political supporter as he was to the opposition, the real issue was that he was a desperate gambler on the side. When you have a voice–especially a popular one, people take the time and energy to support you. When you are on the wrong side of a political affair, those same people–the people who know where you are weak–seek to exploit or even ruin you. So, Yevgeny turned to the Americans and the Americans turned him into Gene Peterson, a protected asset for thirty years until his usefulness was at an end. Now in his late 60’s Gene is a man with grandkids and a pension and a life in a small town where he is respected by his neighbors as someone ‘who came from Russia because America was better’
He is a staunch Republican, but not one for towing the party line. There’s a lot of the old Gene still in there and he sees a lot of what is wrong with the America of today and isn’t afraid to say it.