The same process was going on in most of the Eastern European nations now under Russia’s rule. After a trial in Russia’s Supreme Court, he is sentenced to 25 years at forced labor in Siberia. When he refuses to sign a dictated confession that he is not allowed to read, he spends a year in Moscow’s notorious Kharkov and Lubyanka Prisons.
Slavomir is arrested on a charge of being an anti-Russian spy. Poland’s defeat brings the nation under domination of Germany’s ally, Russian dictator Josef Stalin, and any Polish army officers are to be eliminated. Soldiers on horseback, no matter how brave and skilled, were no match for German tanks and dive bombers. The author, at age 23 was a lieutenant in the Polish cavalry when World War II began with the German invasion of Poland in September, 1939. They must walk more than four thousand miles to reach freedom a year and a half later in India. The writer has describes in vivid detail how he led a group of political prisoners who escape from a Russian prisoners camp in northern Siberia. It’s hard to believe that this a true story, yet hard to believe that it is not.
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