WHY I ESCAPED

by Peter Pirogov ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 24, 1950

The autobiography of another reformed, ex-patriated ex-Russian (Vladimir Petrov's My Retreat From Russia- Yale- follows the same lines) this traces the rather extensive military career of Pirogov, an airman, which eventually ended in his escape from the Russian regime of fear and force. A schoolteacher, Pirogov was drafted in the army, found his most difficult assignment that of informing on his friends for the Special Section. On a return home, once during the war years, he found his village poor and starving, and later stationed in Poland after the war, he found a new source of shame in the behaviour of the Russian troops. Demobilized for a short time, there was little improvement in a civilian life which was oppressed, defenceless, and after his re-induction, he decided to escape across the border- flew with a friend to Linz in the American zone. Once again, the reactions of the ordinary man to Soviet suppression, but one questions whether this has the drama necessary to catch the public eye.

Pub Date: Feb. 24, 1950

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1950

Categories: NONFICTION