USAKOV : In the gunsight of the KGB (fülszöveg)
He knew he was about to be arrested by the KGB. He was neither a dissident nor a member of an ethnic minority, but he was an underground anti-communist. He was a professor at the Odessa Naval Academy, and he was being investigated for his unpublished "anti-Soviet" writings. In addition, his first wife had denounced him as an enemy of the state.
For Alexander Ushakov, the most dramatic episode of his life was about to begin. He set out on a perilous journey that only a handful of his fellow citizens had ever completed — an attempt to cross the heavily guarded Soviet-Turkish border in the Caucasus Mountains. For nearly three weeks Ushakov struggled on foot through mountains and forests, only once encountering another human being. Numb from the cold, rain, and snow, bruised by branches and the underbrush, Ushakov sloughed his way to the border until, at last, after being chased by Soviet soldiers and with helicopters in hot pursuit, he reached Turkey and sanctuary.
Ushakov also offers a thorough analysis of the Soviet system which he has fled, and gives his provocative impressions of America, where he is now settled. His book is above all the story of a brave man and of an astonishing flight to freedom.
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