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Orest M. Gladky
Author Orest M. Gladky was a writer between 1945 and 1977 and his short stories were published in Russian immigrant journals and newspapers in England, New York, San Francisco and ...view moreAuthor Orest M. Gladky was a writer between 1945 and 1977 and his short stories were published in Russian immigrant journals and newspapers in England, New York, San Francisco and Buenos Aires. He wrote as a victim of his times. Branded an "Enemy of the People" for his volunteer service as a boy age16—soldier in the White Army in the Russian civil war which followed the 1917 revolution, he survived as such through the years when the victorious Reds established and carried forward the notoriously dictatorial policies which dogmatically sought to enhance the power of the State through reduction of individual power and too often the literal destruction of the individual.
Orest M. Gladky loved Holy Russia as constituted before Soviet control and never forgave that hierarchy not only for its tyrannies but also its stupidities. When the civil war ended he was forced to fear and flee State power, then learned to hate it, which he did even under German occupation and throughout his World War Two refugee sojourning in Europe and England. Even as he settled and remained in the United States, he continued to hate those who destroyed his Russia. Gladky was a man driven to write and that he did, in scores of stories, prompted not simply by memories of a tumultuous and perilous personal life but also by a deep wish that today's readers learn of those days and be given pause.
The world should fear Communism in itself. Russia got to know it with millions of victims, with rivers of blood and tears, and she herself will shake off the red beast in a year predetermined not by us...
- Orest M. Gladky, "In Whose Name?" 1967.
Newsp. Rossia. 7787:6. New York.view less
Books by Orest M. Gladky
Voices from the Past: A Collection of Short Stories Preserving Facts and Thoughts for Posterity to Pause and Ponder: Russia—Soviet Union: 1917-1971