I thought this would be a good follow-up to the excellent Churchill biography I recently finished. I really wanted to like it, and I did glean some interesting new knowledge from it. But most of the time, I'd finish a few pages and have no recollection of what I'd read. The book centers on Hun...
Page 102 (my book) from Stalin and Beria“an enemy of the people is not only one who commits sabotage, but one who doubts the rightness of the Party line.”... women were arrested as “wives of enemies of the people” and the same applied to children.Page 241 Vladimir Bukovsky“In our camps, you were ...
Although they were certain that the great Soviet nation would overcome the lack of roads, although they had few qualms about using prisoners as slave laborers, Stalin and his henchmen remained exceptionally touchy about the language foreigners used to describe their prison camps abroad.In fact—co...
—Vladimir Lenin, 19051 A typical Warsaw joke described the result of a competition for a memorial sculpture to Pushkin … The prize-winning monument was a gigantic, seated figure of Stalin holding a tiny book, on the cover of which were printed in minuscule letters just two words: Pushkin—Poems. —...
ELENA GLINKA Elena Glinka was a twenty-nine-year-old engineer when she was arrested in 1950. Imprisoned for six years, she returned to Moscow in 1956 and re-enrolled at the shipbuilding institute where she had been studying when she was taken away. From then on, in the words of one of her fellow ...