The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
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An amazing and brave book, worthy of greater publicity. For many years during and just after WWII it was politically incorrect (to say the least) to indicate that Hitler was not the only monster in the 20th century. At the time when the USSR was still more or less our ally it was indeed a brave act for Ms. Hautzig to point out that the dealings of the Soviets were just as dark as those of the Nazis. By recent estimates at least 60 million people died during the Stalinist dictatorial rule, but it is seldom that one sees a memorial dedicated to these victims. Many Americans cannot believe even today, that these horrors actually happened.
While I was teaching in a US Department of Defense School in Germany, my class read the Diary of Anne Frank. We even traveled to Amsterdam, and visited the home, where she and her family were hiding. It was a never to be forgotten, poignant experience; my students were deeply touched.
During this time I happened to come across Esther Hautzig's The Endless Steppe, and made it a point that my class read that too, in order to see the parallel. Stalin's monstrosities do not diminish those of Hitler, or Mao, but a cultured person has a need to perceive all events in balance, without the distortions or exclusions dictated by a current political posture.
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