The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade

Just as when Auschwitz and Treblinka were in operation, few people today are paying attention to the mass annihilation of countless hundreds of thousands of women and girls in the worldwide rape mills. These females are the seed corn of struggling Eastern European nations: 1 in 5 has a university degree, and most of the others are at least trying to get a university education. They answer bogus job offers which lead to sex slavery in hopes of having enough money to finish their higher education. Instead, they end up dead, insane, crippled or in halfway houses far from home. Only when this issue becomes a drumbeat among humane citizens in all informed and educated countries will concrete action ever be taken to stop this enormous destruction of human lives and potential. Despite what P. Pray said about Malarek's book, it is well-researched. Malarek travelled extensively and interviewed numerous people in the Czech Republic, including the Czech/German border area which is apparently an entire region given over to mob-controlled sex slavery, heavily guarded by many on-the-take Czech cops. P. Pray is probably in the 'Natasha' business himself.....think about this book, and the victims it describes, the next time you hear a guy making veiled leering comments about his trip to Prague/Berlin/Amsterdam/Munich/Moscow/Dubai/Greece/Istanbul/Bangkok/Manila/Vegas/Atlantic City.....read this book and you'll realize that when Anne Frank said that people were generally good at heart, that she'd spent too much time in the attic. As an Army officer, I was especially shocked and saddened by the descriptions of girls being repeatedly and routinely raped, traded and sold by US servicemen and contractors in Bosnia, Kosovo and South Korea, with the knowledge and complicity of senior US commanders. I had heard soldiers making sniggering comments about "juicy bars" in the Balkans and Korea; now I know what they were referring to. And this is the Army/Marine Corps full of self-styled "God-fearing Christians" which fights for "freedom" in Iraq and elsewhere?! "How can Satan cast out Satan?" If God punishes the perpetrators of slavery and industrialized rape, then the US and many other states are in for some serious retribution...... Given the ubiquity of the governmental, bureaucratic and NGO corruption described by Malarek, the only probable solutions to the sex slave trade are 1) general social awareness of the crimes within countries able to press politically for solutions, as well as source nations of trafficked women; 2) AGGRESSIVE acts like economic sanctions by states like the US against nations like Germany, Greece, Italy, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, et al which are either exporting their females for sex slavery, or importing them; and 3) the "Medellin solution": emulation of the Columbians who destroyed Pablo Escobar's criminal drug-trafficking empire by tracking and executing large numbers of those connected with the drug trade which undermined Colum

This is a very informative book and one of the saddest I have read. The sad plight of Eastern European women in the sex trade has reached monumental proportions. It doesn't look like there is anything to stop the trade unless politicians seriously get involved. I was very moved by the personal stories of these women. Malarek did the right thing by investigating hot spots himself in various countries. Well written and doesn't drag. Engaging and honest.

I found the book "The Natashas", by author Victor Malarek to be a very compelling and disturbing book to read. I was utterly shocked to read about what is happening in our third world countries today, regarding the "trafficking" of young girls and women from the USSR and Eastern European nations. The most disturbing aspect that the author Victor Malarek brings to light is that nothing much is being done about the selling of women and girls from the Russia/Ukraine provinces. He points out that there has been a few "raids" on brothels and bars, but beyond a few of these raids, there is still a lot to do about the selling of women and girls illegally in Eastern Europe. My only criticism with the book is the repetition of the three nations that are involved in the trafficking of these women. Every few pages one reads "Russia, Ukraine, & Moldova". Towards the middle of the book the reader knows that these nations are the ones heavily involved in the selling of women, and the repetition is unnecessary. Bravo Victor Malarek! I could not put this put down. It is a gripping book; and a global concern that everyone should be aware of, that is happening in the world today.

Having traveled throught Western Europe, Eastern Europe (CIS), Moscow, and St. Petersburg, I have seen many of the subjects of this book in hotel bars, on the streets, etc. I have always assumed that they were "doing what they have to do" to support their financially ravaged families at home. My assumption was way off. This book was an eye-opener. I am amazed that such evil (the slave trade) still exists in our 21st century world.

I read a short interview with Mr. Malarek in a Montreal newspaper, and had to buy this book. It is wonderfully written, and it made me mad, sad, and frustrated at the plight of the poor women in Eastern Europe and other locations that have to endure the horror that their lives have become. I can't help but think about them every day now, and I pray that this book will help get the word out and something will be done while governments look the other way.I commend Mr. Malarek for his work. I plan to pass this book around to everyone I know. A must read.