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EMPIRE OF FEAR (351 pp.)-Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov-Praege...
...improbable that Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov ever heard this cynical rhyme from the period when Australia was an English convict colony. But it might well have applied to the two Soviet citizens in 1954 when they left the service of the Russian secret police and were granted asylum in Australia. The story of the Petrovs-as they tell it themselves-is fascinating and informative on two counts. It gives a salutary refresher course in the feeding and breeding habits of the pestiferous swarm of Soviet agents at work outside Russia. And it gives a self-portrait of the "new" Soviet...
...Siberia, hers near Moscow. The two entered the sinister service of the MVD, after apprenticeship in the Red Youth Organization, as happily and naturally as ambitious U.S. youngsters would take a job with General Motors. Each had early experiences of hardship that evoke the lower depths of Gorky. (Evdokia was hung by her heels in a barn and whipped by a grandfather because she had picked a cucumber; Vladimir went hungry because the family horse he tried to sell to the White army was too poor.) But they worked their dutiful way up as career Communists, and for these...
Somewhere in Australia last week, Mrs. Evdokia Petrov, another fugitive from the Russian secret police system, was at last reunited with her husband. But the reverberations of her dramatic, eleventh-hour escape from the agents of the MVD who tried to carry her back to Russia (TIME, April 26) echoed and re-echoed through the world. Mrs. Petrov, like the others of her kind who have defected in recent weeks, is no ordinary refugee from Communist tyranny...
...last January, the defection of Khokhlov in West Germany and of the Petrovs in Australia, are the known cases; official Washington sources hint that there are others. Try as it may, Communist propaganda cannot mutter a simple "good riddance" at the defections of such people. They know too much. Evdokia Petrov was not just a spy's wife. As an expert code clerk in her husband's espionage apparatus in Australia's Russian embassy, she knew secrets...