In the Soviet Union without Toilet Paper: The Real Life Story of a Red Army Soldier (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

By the time that Roman was 21 years old, he had been trained as a soldier in tank and mortar battalions, marched 500 kilometres towards Stalingrad in one of Russia’s coldest recorded winters, endured hard labour on the frozen steppe and eventually escaped from a forced labour camp, travelling thousand of miles across the Kara Kum desert towards freedom. These memoirs tell the story of a young man who was conscripted into the Red Army along with 300,000 other young men from what had once been Eastern Poland. After losing their homeland and being taken from their homes, these men were required to serve Russia’s military and labour demands. Roman’s memoirs recount wartime struggles, Cossack villages, living in peasant homes and staying in a lepers' village. He escaped with a 6” map, a bag of onions and three companions. Journey in and out of the Soviet Union with this first-hand account of ordinary lives in extraordinary times.