Review of "This I cannot Forget" by Anna Larina.

<Tab/>This I Cannot Forget, by Anna Larina is an interesting guide to how people with knowledge were treated in the USSR. While reading this, however, one must remember that it is a widow's memoir and not a guaranteed factual piece of Soviet history. Larina tells us in her preface that her purpose is to attempt to tell the truth, as best as can be remembered, and also states that, "Nikolai …showed first 75 words of 430 total…

…showed last 75 words of 430 total…to someone who has minimal knowledge of Soviet history. I do, however, warn that it almost appears to be a Soviet version of The Diary of Anne Frank and though it is not written in journal form, the same graphic details and tortures of living under a satanic leader, in Anne Frank's case Hitler, in Larina's case it is Stalin. Larina certainly dealt with much more fear and faced far more repercussions than did Frank.