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When the secret police came for his father in 1938, ten-year-old Konstantin saw his family plunged into a morass of fear. His memoir of growing up in Stalinist Russia re-creates the daily trials of people trapped in this regime before and during the repressive years of World War II--and the equally horrific struggles of refugees afterwards. Konstantin reflects on his formal education under harsh conditions and his growing awareness of the contradictions between propaganda and reality. He tells of life in a small Ukrainian town before the war and of how some citizens collaborated with the Nazi occupation. He also offers a look at everyday life in early postwar Poland and Germany, as well as one of the few firsthand accounts of life in postwar Displaced Persons camps.
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