A Ukranian by birth, Igor was kind of raised behind the Iron Curtain and Reagan's speech did not really give Dyachenko's family the courage to leave oppression and come to freedom, but Stephen took it as a 'yes' anyway. He was the central actor in the Symbolic Reenactments of Ronald Reagan's Victory Over Communism, breaking a 1/8 inch piece of plywood painted like the wall, smashing an unrepentant socialist vodka-infused watermelon and tearing off a piece of Berlin Wall cake.