One of the Fifteen Million

<p><strong>One of the Fifteen Million</strong> first published in 1952 is Ukrainian Nicholas Prychodko's sobering account of his arrest imprisonment torture and eventual exile to Siberia by the Soviet government in the late 1930s. As the author states his offense was thinking free thoughts in a slave state. In a near-miracle his mother traveled to Moscow and the Kremlin and was able to win a pardon for her son from a sympathetic official. Making his way back to the Ukraine Prychodko found work as a teacher but again facing arrest he decides to go into hiding rather than face years of hard labor in the Siberian gulag. In a strange twist of fate the approaching German army in 1941 proved to be his salvation and the author begins a journey to freedom in Canada.</p>