About the book: 1957 / Second edition. Memoirs of a direct witness and participant in the events described.G. Zotov was born in 1926 into a family of Russian emigrants in Hungary. In 1929 the family moved to France. Further, the author’s fate unfolded like the difficult fates of emigrants during the pre-war period, the Second World War and after it. Having been brought up in an uncompromising anti-communist spirit. G. Zotov fought on the side of the Germans against communist Russia, by the end of the war he ended up in Germany, hid there under an assumed name after the defeat of the Germans, married a girl from the USSR, taken by the Germans to work in Germany and, in the end, found himself repatriated to Russia, whom he did not know and in love with whom he was brought up all his life. In this book, the author sincerely and impartially talks about his misadventures in the USSR, which ended in his salvation, but in the loss of his wife and child. The book was conceived by him as a warning to those who, succumbing to the persuasion of communist repatriators, intend to return to Russia. “...behind the temporary, transitory, Georgy Zotov was able to unravel the primordial and the impermanent, which constitutes the deep essence of two irreconcilable opponents of the people and the regime” (From the publisher’s afterword). Valuable materials on the history of Russian emigration. Emigration and Russia. For Slavists, historians of Russia, bibliographers.