The Liberation of One

The real story of what communism means for those who try to faithfully follow it. Romuald Spasowski was raised by his father, a university professor, to believe in Marxism long before it was popular/fashionable idea in Poland. He lived through the Nazi and Soviet invasion, WW II and the Soviet occupation. He worked hard to bring about the Utopia his father had dreamed possible but learned the hard way that everything he believed in was wrong.

This is a great book, both in terms of its historical detail and in terms of its emotional grip. The book reads like a great Tom Clancy novel in terms of its ability to instantly engage you in the main charactor's plight, yet its even more powerful in the sense that this is real history and not fiction, a very individual and personal history and at the same time a history of a European region throughout a very important period of time.I cannot recommend this book enough.

It's an odyssey of a dedicted communist and a patriotic pole, who was slowly becoming disilusioned about the system.The book despite its fairly plain language shows the true picture of pre-WW2 Poland, of German attrocities during the War and of a communist reality thereafter.It is also compelling story of a tragic life of the statesman, whose father and son commited suicide, who struggled to preserve his family and whose ideas were totaly discredited on the end.I reccomend it with all my heart.