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I Chose Justice (The Library of Conservative Thought)

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This is a book I read 20 years ago. It is a follow up book to his first: I Choose Freedom. The story revolves around Victor's attempt to challenge the French Communist party's attempt to slander his first book. He took them to court and he WON! but it was to entail a long an arduous legal battle where the monetary reward was small but the reward for the human spirit was immeasureable.

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.

Originally published in 1950, this is Victor Kravchenko's chronicle of a lawsuit he brought against a Communist literary weekly published in Paris, France, for false and slanderous articles surrounding his defection from the Soviet Union and his book on the purges and suppression within that nation, I Chose Freedom.

An official in the Soviet Purchasing Commission when he defected, Kravchenko utilizes personal accounts, interviews with witnesses, documents filed with the court, official Soviet documents, testimony from numerous individuals and media reports to paint what is a chilling and moving account of brutality and the attempt to silence any dissent.

Seemingly lost in the pages of history, this account of one individual bold enough to carry the beacon of freedom remains a powerful statement of truth being lost in the political game, but found on a world stage where those who lied could run, but ultimately could not hide.

Creo que este libro es una obra imprescindible para todo aquel al que le interesa la historia de la rusia sovietica durante el periodo de Stalin porque te da una vision extremadamente clara y precisa de la situacion durante la colectivizacion del campo, durante las purgas y de la paranoia que se extendio entre la sociedad rusa por culpa de Stalin. Pero sin duda lo mas importante es que refleja el "desconocimiento" de la sociedad rusa sobre la situacion real de rusia durante ese periodo a causa de la falsa propaganda stalinista, en verdad se establece una situacion de "doblepensar"(segun G.Orwell). En definitiva creo que sin duda alguna es una obra imprescindible para enteder ese periodo de la historia. es excelente.