Several thousand Americans moved to the USSR in the 30's, and several of them wrote books about their lives there. Nor have I ever read any account by an American who was in Russia at the time who knew of an American engineer who worked on the Moscow subway. Smith would have become famous post war given the Cold War of that era. The conflict and themes these authors use reflect. Slav, on the other hand, escapes from a Gulag camp and must find his way to India. Odysseus, who tries to return home to Ithaca, faces the consequences of angering Poseidon. Nobody in his right mind would return to Soviet territory after escaping a Soviet camp.Īnother aspect that I find problematic is his companion on the trek, Mr. The Odyssey by Homer and The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz tell the stories of two men seeking shelter from their past. But he says that this happened after he went back to the USSR after exiting through India with his two companions. After a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp meant enduring hunger, extreme cold, untreated wounds and illnesses. There is much in Rawicz's story that makes no sense.įor example, Rawicz admitted that he had come out of the USSR with the Poles who were released after the Soviet-Polish pact, and went to Palestine where he joined the British forces. This book should be relegated to the fiction section of the library. I found it on the sad side.even brings a tear to your eye. This book is a real good read as they say.
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