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The Forsaken

An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
Mar 15, 2013echobravo rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Excellent book as others wrote. I keep coming back to the idea of the survivors promising (themselves and others) to tell the story if they ever made it out alive - and me reading their testimony. Everyone should know this history as much as we learn about the Holocaust by the Nazis. And perhaps moreso since Stalin's mass murder was mostly inflicted on his own people within his own borders - it didn't require a war of aggression. Is a tyrannical leader in your won country more dangerous than an invader? It has always galled me to hear people even in 2012/2013 to speak favorably of Mao, our Lenin statue in Fremont, wailing at the death of Hugo Chavez - all fellow travelers of Stalin even if not as prolific in their murder and tyranny.