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# The Patriots: A Novel

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## Customer Reviews

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    Well written and well researched
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2022*

I seldom give a book 5 stars....but this book well deserves it....The writing itself...the references to other literature....the research....I couldn't put it down. I dreamt of the characters, and I can't remember when last I had done that.

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    What is a patriot: read an historical novel based on fact or read fact-altered tweets?
  

*by A***T on Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2017*

This multigenerational novel begins in the 1930's with the emigration of Florence Fein to Russia.  She goes not because she is a card carrying Communist, but for the lust/love of a Soviet engineer and the "notion" that the "Soviet Union was a place where the future was already being lived." It did not take long for her to experience there the privations in food, housing and personal freedoms.  Florie becomes the victim of both anti-semitism and anti-americanism.  She can never be patriotic enough because who she is will make one suspect of what she does.  She becomes paranoid of friends and neighbors and opts out of chances to escape. In the end, she pays the ultimate price of prison, internal exile and the betrayal of a fellow American. Florence's son Julian, born in Moscow, is forced to spend seven formative years of his childhood in a Russian orphanage.  This experience scars him, but cannot stifle his intelligence.  He earns a PhD in engineering, but is denied the degree because there is a quota on Jews receiving degrees.  Feeling trapped by "the system", Julian seizes an opportunity for himself and his family (including Florence) to emigrate to the USA in 1977.  There, he earns his degree and finds a lucrative profession as an engineer.  Ironically, because of his Russian background, Julian is employed by an international petroleum firm and gets the opportunity to return to Russia.  His youngest child, Lenny, has moved back to Russia with a plan of "making it big" in the emerging financial markets.  Naive Lenny, like his beloved grandmother, gets caught in the web of Russian business "smoke and mirrors" and is imprisoned.  Can Julian save his son?The Patriots is not a great piece of literature. It would benefit from editing to make the story shorter.  Despite these failings, THIS IS AN IMPORTANT BOOK TO READ AT THIS TIME IN USA HISTORY.  The novel accurately chronicles seventy years of the lack of true intelligence information and the naivete of American policy makers toward the USSR.  It chronicles the iron grip of the government on its people, the pecking order within the work place and society as a whole which breeds paranoia and suspicion. Even in the 21st century, government critics are imprisoned or murdered.  This is not rule of law, but rule of fear where money and power may or may not hold sway.  Lines from the work of Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, should stun the reader as to its current salience:  " It is a place where every lunatic proposition is self-evident while universal truths are hauled in for questioning."  It is up to the reader to decide for which nation this quote applies.

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    A Compelling Read with a Warning!
  

*by J***L on Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2017*

Once I started reading The Patriot  by Sana Krasikov I couldn’t put it down. It is a story of how a young Jewish girl, Florence Fein, a graduate of Brooklyn College, made an impulsive and naive decision to immigrate to the Soviet Union in 1933 in search of her Soviet lover. This decision had tragic repercussions for Florence, her son, Julian, and her grandson, Lenny.Toggling between modern day Russia and the Soviet Union of the 1930s and 1950s, this novel fully captures the day-to-day lives of Russians and Americans trapped in Stalin and Putin’s treacherous and unpredictable worlds. It also reveals how the United States State Department, the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph Davies, and even the then president, FDR, conspired to prevent Americans trapped in the Soviet Union from returning to the USA.  It rings true. I know because my aunt was trapped and perished there during the 1938 purges. The research I have done for a family memoir confirms it.Terrifying to me was Krasikov’s ability to slowly, scene by scene, tighten the noose around ordinary people; to show how during Stalin’s era friends, husbands, wives, and children were trapped into denouncing their friends and relatives; to bring alive the stifling fear they faced.Additionally and equally frightening are the chapters set in modern day Russia. Reverberations of the impact of deals between American oil companies and Russia left me shocked with parallels to our current crisisA quote cited in the book about Stalin’s era from Eric Hoffer’s book The True Believer (1951) is chillingly predictive of today’s world:All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world….It is the true believer’s ability to “shut his eyes and stop his ears” to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy.  He cannot be frightened by danger nor disheartened by obstacles nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence….Both as a compelling page-turner and as a warning about current events The Patriots is a must read.

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