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East Wind Over Prague. (Hardcover)
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East Wind Over Prague. (Hardcover)
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By a young man who escaped the Germans in Czechoslovakia in 1939,
and since the end of the war has been fighting "on the wrong side
of the Iron Curtain", this is an experienced and disturbingly
dispassionate record of the way in which Communism came to
Czechoslovakia, the lack of moral balance in a beaten people
motivated by fear rather than faith, susceptible to greed, hatred,
ambition. From the defeat of the Germans to the Liberation of the
Red Army, that unending "flood from the steppes", this traces the
substitution of one regime of serfdom for another, the affinity of
methods- whether blackmail or bribery, the conquest of a people who
reasoned realistically that it was better to be a supporter than a
victim, better to be safe than sorry, and who in the skin game of
self-preservation found few tangibles in the dim democratic
assurances. And the cheerless conclusion is that war is a surety.
Alarming, affecting. (Kirkus Reviews)
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