Leave Your Tears In Moscow Barbara Armonas Memoir Soviet Political Prisoner Book. Book is in excellent condition with light wear to cover. No markings. DJ is in very good shape with light wear. BCE. DJ is protected in removable mylar cover. Ships in a box and packaged with care.
Originally published in condensed form as "A Brave Woman's Ordeal in Siberia" in Life Magazine.
Leave Your Tears in Moscow
by BARBARA ARMONAS as told to A. L. NASVYTIS
In 1940, the tides of war that were sweeping over Europe separated Barbara Armonas and her American husband. She and their infant son were forced to remain in her native Lithuania when her husband and daughter returned to the United States. "Don't worry," her husband said then. "In a few months you can join me."
But the family was not to be reunited for almost twenty years-until after Nikita Khrushchev, during his 1959 visit to the United States, promised that Mrs. Armonas and her son would be allowed to leave the USSR.
In this book, Mrs. Armonas tells what those years were like and how she survived them. In its everyday details, especially, her story is a continual revelation: of the war years, when the Armonas farm was literally a battlefield; of her long, bitter exile in a Siberian labor camp; of her imprisonment for unspecified "political crimes"; and, finally, of the last nerve-shattering days before she returned to freedom.
Barbara Armonas' story first attracted nationwide interest in the press during the Khrushchev visit in 1959, and even wider attention when excerpts from Leave Your Tears in Moscow appeared in Life in April, 1961. But until now the entire story has never been told. No one who reads it will fail to be moved by this courageous woman's account of her struggle for survival in a police state. This is human tragedy, told with simple realism and an almost incredible restraint and with the amazing twist of a happy ending.