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...thanks to TIME for publishing the photo of Mr. and Mrs. Petrov, authors of Empire of Fear. Curiously enough, it cleared for me the mystery of my only brother's disappearance in Soviet Russia. I fled from the U.S.S.R. in 1920. There I left my younger brother, with whom I corresponded regularly until 1937; then something happened. I never got another letter from...
...Petrov's face in your picture looked strangely familiar to me. I compared it with the photo my brother sent me of his wife Evdokia and himself (prior to his disappearance), and I was almost sure that my brother's wife Evdokia and Mrs. Petrov were the same person. After that, I got a copy of their book and, true enough, Evdokia in her autobiography describes in detail her life with my brother, and the tragic fate that befell him after his arrest and imprisonment by the State Security Police in Moscow in 1937. Thus, after 20 years...
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...
...Barnyard. The Soviet embassy was a true enclave-an island of cruel and clownish Soviet life. The best part of the Petrovs' book describes in detail the life of the higher Soviet bureaucracy: by a paradox, the egalitarian theory of Communism has produced a pathologically heightened sense of status-so that life in the embassy went on by rules something like the pecking hierarchy observed by barnyard fowl. Mrs. Petrov got into hot water for having put a comic picture within eyeshot of Stalin's portrait, and even hotter water when she was falsely accused of having thrown...