Slavomir Rawicz The Long Walk Pdf
About the Book This book is a real good read as they say. I found it on the sad side.even brings a tear to your eye. This book should be relegated to the fiction section of the library. There is much in Rawicz's story that makes no sense. For example, Rawicz admitted that he had come out of the USSR with the Poles who were released after the Soviet-Polish pact, and went to Palestine where he joined the British forces.
But he says that this happened after he went back to the USSR after exiting through India with his two companions. This makes no sense whatsoever. Nobody in his right mind would return to Soviet territory after escaping a Soviet camp. Another aspect that I find problematic is his companion on the trek, Mr. Smith, an American.
I should think that Mr. Smith would have become famous post war given the Cold War of that era. Nor have I ever read any account by an American who was in Russia at the time who knew of an American engineer who worked on the Moscow subway. Several thousand Americans moved to the USSR in the 30's, and several of them wrote books about their lives there.
. ^ Levinson, Hugh (30 October 2006).
BBC News, International version. Retrieved 18 January 2009. and (16 May 2009). (in Belarusian). 'The missing link came through documents discovered by an American researcher, Linda Willis, in Polish and Russian archives.
One, in Rawicz's own hand described how he was released from the gulag in 1942, apparently as part of a general amnesty for Polish soldiers. These are backed up by his amnesty document and a permit to travel to rejoin the Polish Army. These papers make it almost impossible to believe that Rawicz escaped, unless there is a case of mistaken identity.
However, the name and place and date of birth all match. The documents also show that rather than being imprisoned on trumped-up charges as he claimed, Rawicz was actually sent to the gulag for killing an officer with the NKVD, the forerunner of the Soviet secret police, the KGB.'
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Slavomir Rawicz The Long Walk Pdf File
Gunning – 1984 'On a snowy night in April of 1941, Slav and six other prisoners – Sigmund Makowski, Anastazi Kolemenos, Anton Paluchowicz, Eugene Zaro, Zacharius Marchinkovas, and Smith, an American who never gave his first name – crept out of their.'