| P R E F A C E IN THE DAYS WHEN WAR WAS Afading memory, and heroes, like Charles Lindberg and AmeliaEarhart, established their names in the history books, and peopletrusted their leaders, unexpected storm clouds gathered. Twopowerful countries stood upon a perilous precipice. Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a cruel hand, his ownneurosis feeding an insatiable hunger for power and control. Inan insane race to compete with world technology, heimplemented one Five Year Plan after another. Farmers wereripped from their land and forced to labor on collectives.Others slaved to build factories, modern railroad lines, anddams. The appalling cost to the Soviets, their lives. During his twenty-nine-year rule, more than twentymillion Soviet citizens were slaughtered as he fed his need fordominance. Even those who were loyal and believed in hisV11 |
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