As a child he lived through the famine of 1933 in the Ukraine .
Leonid Steele was born in Lebedyn , a town in the Sumy Region of the Ukrainian SSR .
As a child Leonid Steele lived through the famine of 1933 in the Ukraine .
Leonid Steele was born in Lebedyn , a town in the Sumy Region of the Ukrainian SSR .