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Eyewitness Accounts I was a Slave in Russia (Paperback)
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Eyewitness Accounts I was a Slave in Russia (Paperback)
Series: Eyewitness Accounts
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"It is hard to describe a nightmare adequately, unless you can say
how the day had been before the night fell." In late 1945, John H.
Noble was arrested by Soviet occupation forces on a trumped-up
espionage charge. Ten years later, he found himself a prisoner in
Vorkuta, part of the Soviet Gulag system. Situated 50 miles above
the Arctic Circle, temperatures in Vorkuta drop too low for
bacteria to survive. As an American prisoner during the Cold War,
Noble's is a harrowing and unique story. Forced to work in the
mines, his weight dropped from 150 to 95 pounds as he pushed 2-ton
coal cars. He was also a key player in the 1953 Vorkuta Uprising, a
peaceful protest violently ended by the Blatnois. Noble was
eventually released in 1955, following the intervention of US
President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Here, in this extraordinary
document, he tells his unbelievable story. This is an unflinching
look at the true face of Communism and a gripping account of one
man's survival against seemingly impossible odds.
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