Escape From The Soviets-Tatiana Tchernavin-1934

“This book is about myself, for I cannot write of other people without exposing them to the danger of imprisonment and exile; but my life is typical of the lives of thousands of educated women in U.S.S.R. We have all of us spent years in study in order to acquire knowledge necessary not only to ourselves but to our country which we were eager to serve. None of us were hostile to the Revolution, and many devoted themselves with enthusiasm to work for the new regime. But this did not save us either from famine, when we had no food to give our children, or from prison and exile. If technical experts who created all that may be truly called `achievements of the Revolution’ have been condemned by the Soviet Government as `wreckers’ it was but natural that the `wreckers’ wives’ should suffer too. To wipe out the intellectuals as a class it was necessary to get hold not only of the men but of the women as well, and, incidentally, of their children.”

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