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HUMAN CARGO, a historical novel in the tradition of the Boris
Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. A journey of young lovers in the most
turbulent times in Russian history through the bloody revolution,
unspeakable human cruelty and love no weapon can destroy and their
triumphant survival. In WW I, Russian army on the eastern front is
collapsed by the Central Powers. Captain Alexander (Sasha)
Vasilievich retreats with tens of thousands of wounded and hungry
soldiers. He returns to Irina, his fiancee and his family in his
hometown in east Siberia. While visiting his hometown, a tragic
event happens to Irina: she is violated by the most villainous
Cossack general in east Siberia. Sasha retaliates but with little
success. In the west, the October Revolution erupts in St.
Petersburg that sweeps the nation into chaos. Sasha joins the Red
Army and serves as a military intelligence officer to spy on the
Allied forces in the Far East that assist the White Army in their
battle against the Bolshevik revolution. After Sasha and Irina tied
the knot, another tragedy strikes them. The Cossacks return to
their hometown to avenge the deaths of their comrades. They set
their homes on fire, and Irina sustains severe burns to her face
and part of her body in the fire. On the fateful night, in a
different city, Sasha is betrayed by a Bolshevik who sold him to
the White Army. He escapes wounded. He returns home only to witness
the utter destruction. He spends the next three years looking for
his wife. When they reunite, they move to a human habitat to build
a new life. As they strive to build a better life, his country
betrays him. In 1937 Stalin begins the bloody persecution against
Soviet minorities and deports Soviet-Koreans to central Asia, the
first ethnic cleansing in USSR. Sasha, who was born between his
Korean father and Russian mother, is among the 180.000 deportees.
On the way to Central Asia, tens of thousands die of diseases and
hunger, on frigid cattle trains without bathrooms or medicine.
After four weeks, the cattle train arrives at its destination and
ditches the human cargo, in the middle of the snowy steppe of
Kazakhstan. Resolved to survive and rise again from the human
cruelty, Sasha and Irina spend the first winter in dirt dug-outs
living on barks, weeds, and winter desert animals.
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