A review by msgtdameron
Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge

4.0

Great read of survival in the most absurd circumstances. By absurd I mean you love your country and you love where your country was headed but some one came along and hijacked that dream. Some one named Stalin. You still love your country but you can't support this man. What do you do? That is the dilemma that Serge explores in Unforgiving years. The plot revolves around two individuals. D who leaves the party and disappears and Daria who continues her party work even though she is tried, exiled, returned, sent to Leningrad and then Germany to continue her intelligence/Comitern work. For the Soviet State the Comitern, the Party Organ responsible for organizing the world wide Communist Revolution, and intelligence work are one and the same. Serge explores how both deal with their conscience and their love for the party even with Stalin in charge. A great read to explore divided loyalties and pertinent to our world today.