'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday
Telegraph (Five-Star Review) In THE RED HOTEL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF
STALIN'S DISINFORMATION WAR, former Daily Telegraph Foreign Editor
and Russian expert Alan Philps sets out the way Stalin created his
own reality by constraining and muzzling the British and American
reporters covering the Eastern front during the war and forcing
them to reproduce Kremlin propaganda. War correspondents were both
bullied and pampered in a gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel. They
enjoyed lavish supplies of caviar and had their choice of young
women to employ as translators and to share their beds. While some
of these translators turned journalists into robotic conveyors of
Kremlin propaganda, others were brave secret dissenters who
whispered to reporters the reality of Soviet life and were punished
with sentences in the Gulag. Through the use of British archives
and Russian sources, the story of the role of the women of the
Metropol Hotel and the foreign reporters they worked with is told
for the first time. With a riveting narrative very much in the same
wheelhouse as Ben McIntyre's Agent Sonya this revelatory story will
finally lift the lid on Stalin's operation to muzzle and control
what the western allies' writers and foreign correspondents knew of
his regime's policies to prosecute the war against Hitler's
rampaging armies from June 1941 onwards.
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