“The Forsaken,” a book by British author Tim Tzouliadis and published this year by Penguin Books Ltd., relates the ghastly story of thousands of utopian and gullible Americans and Europeans who believed the rank soviet propaganda of the early Depression years about jobs and a wonderful life and embarked for the Workers’ Paradise never to return-since they were all executed within a few short years as, bitterly disillusioned, they tried to escape and return home only to find their passports confiscated and their freedoms totally abridged. Roosevelt’s Moscow Embassy, Ambassador Joseph Davis and the whole administration refused to intervene and abandoned them in order to placate Stalin and the NKVD. I hope that the book can be read by many. No fan of the soviet union I am nonetheless stunned to read this highly credible account of this particular kind of murderousness directed at these dupes of long, long ago.
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