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Title: Ring of truth
Review: Author Granovsky relates the Stalinist nightmare of forced labor camps, prisons, and torture. Ironically, a major target of the NKVD seems to have been Communists, such as Granovsky's father - the purges destroyed the old line communists who Stalin viewed as a threat to his own position. Through luck, he was able to leave prison and work for the NKVD as an informer targeting the children of Communists who had been sent to the gulag - in an attempt to send the children to the Gulag also since they were now children of "enemies of the people". He waited until he had the opportunity to escape the "1984" society of Josef Stalin. The book illustrates the fate of those Stalin feared had the potential of having leadership potential to rival him - since other Communists were potential rivals for leadership, they were prime targets for Stalin's paranoia. In a nutshell, the most dangerous enemy of the members of the Communist party was - their own Communist leaders!
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