I Chose Justice

by Victor Kravchenko

1 HARDCOVER BOOK WITH MOST OF DUST COVER

510 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1950

About the author

Viktor Andriyovych Kravchenko, a Ukrainian-born Soviet defector, known for writing the best-selling book "I Chose Freedom", published in 1946, about the realities of life in the Soviet Union.

Kravchenko defected to the United States during World War II, and began writing about his experiences as an official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Reviews

[Udaiiiiiii]

Really, nobody has read this? My interest comes from these lines in his wikipedia article:

"Kravchenko also wrote a lesser known book, that was the sequel to "I Chose Freedom", entitled "I Chose Justice" in 1950. His inspiration came from a paranoia stemming from his "Trial of the Century" and the McCarthy's, so-called,"anti-communist witch hunt". Kravchenko realized that the western world engaged in injustices against humanity resembling the regime he originally fled from. Upon this he then chose different ways to counter-act exploitation and Stalinist development by moving to Bolivia, the location of his apparent suicide. These ways included investing his profits made from "I Chose Freedom" into an attempt to organize poor farmers into new collectives."

[Oleksandr · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are four plots intervined. Two are obvious crimes of Soviet Union against people and how people survived and suffered from it. And then there is great description of the Europe in the end of 40s with communism on the rise and social struggles. And in the end there are great thoughts about the future - constant struggles between Soviet Union and western world, covering imperialism in anticommunism and how it will hurt western world, creation of Nato.
And then mentions of people that are forced by Soviet government to participate in the smearing campaign and the whole smearing campaign itself - it looks archaic and stupid, but also it made me said that Dovzhenko took part in it.