The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World by Tera Zahra
This book delivers a timely message of our status and relationship to all inhabitants of this planet.
This book is a wake up call and eye opening message to this world that selfishly grabs everything in sight with a me and my attitude of winner take all, might is right, and where it is far better to be rich and guilty than poor and innocent.
Worthy of more than five stars.
Excerpts from The Great Departure:
Countries that experienced mass emigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as Mexico and China, also aimed to protect and support emigrants overseas rather than prohibit emigration.
In 1945, after all, Harry S. Truman and Winston Churchill had agreed to Stalin’s demands for the forcible repatriation of Soviet citizens, leading to tragic scenes. In Dachau on January 19, 1946, at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp, American troops had to use tear gas to force Soviet POWs from their barracks. After being thrust outdoors, the soldiers fell to the snow and pleaded with their captors to shoot them rather than send them home. Ten POWs succeeded in killing themselves, and twenty-one were injured before the group was turned over to Soviet authorities for repatriation.
In
the United States, meanwhile, it is perhaps not coincidental that
Donald Trump is married to the Slovene immigrant Melania Trump. His
first wife, Ivana, was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia. Four of his
five children have immigrant mothers. But for Trump (and his
supporters), there is no contradiction in aspiring to make a Central
European immigrant the first lady while promising to put a “total
stop” to Muslim immigration to the United States and build a wall
on the Mexican border.
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