Dream restores voice
NZPA-Reuter Moscow A Soviet soldier who became mute when wounded in a World War II battle has regained his speech after dreaming about the fighting, the Government daily," Izvestia,” reported. It said Arkhip Maximenko, aged 75, of the Ukrainian village of Svidovets, near Chernigov, was left mute by a bullet which hit him in the head during the battle in Poland in December, 1944. But a recent dream restored his voice. “I was dreaming about a battle that night,” the paper quoted him as saying. “I charged forward with my rifle and shouted loudly in my sleep.” He left the house the next morning and began speaking to his neighbours in fluent Ukrainian, “Izvestia” said.
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Press, 26 February 1987, Page 41
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