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Whoever else buys this book, one copy will almost certainly be bought by the NKVD, Russia's secret police. It will be sent to Moscow to take its place in the vast NKVD archives beside the French edition, Vingt Ans au Service de I'U.R.S.S. (1939) of which this is an English amplification. In the NKVD's dossier, under the entry "Alexander Barmine, traitor, renegade, former Brigadier General of the Red Army, former Soviet chargé d'affaires at Athens," will appear a new entry: "author of One Who Survived." This book will...
...Like the NKVD, U.S. readers would do well to ponder this political autobiography. It is important as history, supplying much material the world never knew or has already forgotten about Russia's internal and external affairs from 1936 to 1939. (Barmine points out that the Purge, and Soviet charges that most of Russia's general staff and high diplomats had committed treason with Germany, was one reason why Britain and France did not push harder for a Russian alliance in 1939.) The book is important as a record of the mechanics of the change whereby socialist states...
OZNA (the Yugoslav equivalent of the Russian NKVD) is busy rounding up collaborators and interrogating suspects. The press is tightly controlled and the courts -on the admission of the Yugoslavs themselves-are sadly in need of reform and reorganization. The affairs of state are rigidly administered by Tito and a few close cronies. Foreign Minister Subasich and others who were added to the Partisan cabinet last March have little real power...
...trial, wrote this account: The prisoners' dock was a picket-fence pen knocked together out of boards salvaged from packing cases. It contained four rows of seats, four to a row. Around the dock there was a plethora of blue-and-red-capped, uniformed guards of the NKVD. Between the dock and the audience stood two guards, immobile with rifles grounded, leather cartridge cases on their belts, unbuttoned bayonets glinting like polished silver under the batteries of Klieg lights...
...Secretary Anthony Eden reported: "The Soviet Government has informed the British Ambassador in Moscow . . . that to meet the wishes of the British Government they are taking steps at once to set Mme. Arcizewska free." The elderly wife of Polish Premier Tomasz Arcizewski had been arrested in Poland by the NKVD (Russian secret police). Asked if there were any reasons for her arrest, the Foreign Secretary answered: "I have been given some, but I thought in the light of the happy conclusion to my inquiries it would be better to leave it there...