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Shattered Illusions
Olavi Veltheim
其他書名
lost hopes in 1920s Soviet Russia
出版Arena books, 2014-05-05
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / BusinessBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / PoliticalBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / Russia / GeneralHistory / Europe / Nordic CountriesSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Penology
ISBN19094213839781909421387
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ARXGDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This is the true but incredible story of the survival of the Finn, Olavi Veltheim, in Soviet Russia and how his experiences in this "e;land of dreams"e; turned into a nightmare. A civil war was raging in Finland, and one of Veltheim's brothers was fighting on the side of the Reds and the other on the side of the Whites. Olavi's disability meant that he was unfit for combat and had no future. He left for England to study shipping, was taken on by the Anglo-Russian company, Arcos, and shortly thereafter married an Englishwoman. When the British authorities refused Olavi a visa and he was unwilling to return to Finland, the Soviet Union offered the family the chance of a new life free of "e;exploitation."e; But the reality of this promise was not what they expected. The family lived in poverty and could not find work. Conditions worsened further, and eventually culminated in Lubyanka prison and the suffering of the labour camps in the Urals and Siberia which lasted for 6 long years before his repatriation. Olavi Veltheim's memoirs are a unique archive find. The book was originally published as a Dutch translation entitled De avonturen van een Finn in Sovjet-Rusland (Amsterdam 1939). Olavi Veltheim destroyed the original manuscript at the end of the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1944, and it was only through the re-discovery of the Dutch version in the 1980s and its re-translation into Finnish that it is now appearing in an English edition for a much wider world readership.