Our Russian years. Families taken out in the USSR

An unexpected door woken up two and a half thousand families in the Soviet occupation zone in Germany - so on October 22, 1946, the secret operation of Opeaviahim began. Just a few hours later, all these people - engineers and techniques of the aviation and machine -building industries, sent to the USSR as “living reparations” - will be on a train with an destiny unknown to them.
But the twenty -two -year -old student Ida is ready to leave Germany destroyed by the war, a trip to Russia seems to her rather an exciting adventure.
The book is based on a diary written by the author’s mother. He is complemented by the voices of other witnesses, forming a kaleidoscopic picture of the life of German specialists in the USSR. For everyone, this experience was different, but a fracture in the biography, which left the mark on the whole subsequent life, has become common to everyone