This is a continuation of my reading of Victor Herman’s book, Coming Out Of The Ice, An Unexpected Life, out of print for some time. Just a reminder of why I am doing this. I consider this book to be extremely important, because it is a glimpse into what we can expect if we do not resist the oncoming tyranny. Victor Herman, in discussing his experiences in the Soviet gulag emphasized: “Don’t think it can’t happen here.” And, it is now happening here.
The series begins here.
This is the chapter about living Under The Ice, living in a hole in the frozen ground while the air above you flies by at 80 miles per hour.
. . . and sometimes the nights you had to go out, you could hear trees explode and rocks crack and see birds drop like feathered stones, and you had to try to warm the air a little in your mouth before you dared let it get down into your lungs, and all through that January and February and most of that March we could not take Svetlana outside. For almost three months that child lived down there in that black hole, her light the light the fire gave.
The reading is here. As always, I hope you appreciate Victor’s words.