ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: .
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Hardcover: 378 pages
Publisher: Knopf (January 12, 1985)
Language: English

Arkady N. Shevchenko was the highest-ranking Soviet defector ever: he was Under Secretary-General of the United Nations at the time. Moreover, his book was a sensational number one best seller, highly acclaimed throughout the media, and even serialized in Time Magazine.
Sadly, the same liberals who were praising Shevchenko didn`t seem to be reading what he`d written.
Shevchenko wrote a real-life spy thriller, as good as any fiction available; but he also delivered an extremely timely warning. The Soviet Union was dangerous, he said, bent on world conquest, sooner rather than later. It was fully willing to fight a nuclear war, or a conventional war, or any kind of war that would advance its `inevitable` victory. It was corrupt, its economy was failing, its leaders were desperate. A West which was not both resolute and strong would be annihilated, sooner or later, probably sooner.
In 1984 and 1985, conservatives believed those things already, while liberals believed that even the mention of such was at best mindless palaver, at worst reckless war-mongering. Five years later, as glasnost and the fall of the Soviet Union opened the `evil empire`s` archives, it became clear that everything Shevchenko (and Reagan) had said was true (or even less severe in some cases than might have been warranted). Yet though the Left refused to hear the message, they could not ignore the stature of the messenger, and Shevchenko had his day in the sun, as well as his reward for his service to the cause of freedom: freedom not merely for our people, but for his own.
While this book may be hard to find, it is well worth the hunt. Shevchenko`s testimony is vital to a solid understanding of the latter years of the Cold War, and his story-telling is riveting. Don`t miss either.