MONDICH MIKHAIL (1923-1969) Smyersh (god v stane vraga) [ (A Year in the Enemy Camp) ] / N. Sinevirsky. [Menkhehof]: Grani, 1948.
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– 136 p.; 21x14.5 cm. – (Grani: Journal of Literature, Art, Science, and Social Thought; Special Issue; November).
In a printed cover. Minor scuffs and stains, smudges, tears on the spine.
Publisher's annotation: 'Our time is rich in 'human documents', notes, diaries, and memoirs. This is no coincidence: nowadays, a dry account of reality often sounds brighter and stronger than any artistic fiction. N. Sinevirsky's book is a 'human document', but a document of a very special kind. The author of the book is a 'spy in the enemy camp', a man who managed to visit and return alive from the very citadel of the communist dictatorship. We are referring to its intelligence and punitive organs, the NKVD and SMERSH.
Mikhail Dmitrievich Mondich (pseudonym: Nikolai Sinevirsky, 1923-1968) was a Carpatho-Russian writer and political figure of the Muscovite persuasion, an agent of the NTS (People's Labor Union of Russian Solidarists).
In 1946, he fled to West Germany. In 1947, he arrived in Frankfurt am Main, where he established ties with the local branch of the NTS. At the suggestion of A. Trushnovich, a member of the NTS leadership, in 1948 he published his memoirs about his time in SMERSH, where he witnessed the torture and murder of people arrested by SMERSH.