Smersh"Nicola Sinevirsky ... infiltrated SMERSH as an interpreter. Under enormous odds, he survived seven months in SMERSH ... undetected. and then he succeeded in escaping from its clutches and into the United States Zone of Germany. Two years ago ... the NTS [Naraodnno-Trudovoj Sojuz, i.e., National Alliance of Russian Solidarists] newspaper Possev published his diary. And now, for the first time, it is being made available to the American public ..."--P. vii. |
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