Inside the Soviet Army
The Liberators is a unique document. Viktor Suvorov is a young man, a product of the post-Khruschev era, a former officer in the Soviet Army. His real name is not Viktor Suvorov.
No previous book by a Russian has revealed with such clarity and honesty what life is like in the Soviet Army. Suvorov takes the reader through the mind-freezing savagery of a penal glasshouse and the extravagant idiocy of army manoeuvres on the grandest scale. He shows how an officer is trained, and how the hierarchy of the Soviet Army is achieved and maintained. He gives brutally frank portraits. of the senior commanders and politicians, and of the petty bureaucrats and Party informers. There is much humour and satire in his vivid descriptions. But this is merely the surface of the book. At its core lies the role which the Soviet Army played in crushing the 1968 Czech uprising, when the attention of the free world was turned in the direction of Prague... and when the free world did nothing.
Suvorov tells his story with simplicity but also deadly accuracy. He knows what it was like, and he knows that it could happen again, It was his army which could invade Poland, or Germany, or... It is officers of his kind and with his training who could be involved in the next war. The Liberators-a deliberately ironic title conjuring up the image of a Soviet tank pathetically festooned with innocent flowers is entertaining, often crude in its impact, ultimately deeply disturbing. It is a book of our times.
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