

On the rare occasions when a man is freed after ten years of torture, he is informed briefly that his arrest was a mistake. Without giving reasons, it sends men and women to prisons and forced-labor camps in the most damned and godforsaken places in the world, where they spend ten to twenty years rotting to death, often not knowing the nature of the crime for which they are being punished. The NKVD holds in its power the life and death of every individual in Russia. The iron police system of NKVD is a thousand times more terrible than the Okhrana (the czarist police). “On the other hand, communism has bred a new prototype of a Russian slave, the slave of the party, of a regime without scruples. The industrialization, the development of communication, motorization, and education are all worthy of admiration. The book chronicles Virski's experiences as a soldier in the Ukraine and Central Asia, describing the hardships, his comrades-in-arms, the food, clothing, and. Slavery of masses of peasants under one landlord no longer exists. My Life in the Red Army is the true-life account of 19-year old Polish citizen Fred Virski, who was drafted into the Red Army of the Soviet Union in 1938. Illiteracy is being fought with good results, and people are becoming a little more civilized. Conditions today are far better than they were before the Revolution. The ignorance of the masses, the illiteracy, the clerical witchcraft, subordinated to the demands of the czarist regime, were terrible. My Life in the Red Army chronicles 19-year old Fred Virskis experiences as a soldier in the Russian milit Funny Vintage Robot Soviet Union USSR Tee T-Shirt. Russia under the czars was comparable to the Middle Ages its slavery had no equal in Europe.

“We’ve got to admit that the Bolsheviks have raised the nation considerably. “There’s more in it than that,” Ludwik broke in.
