Из амазоновской рецензии на эту книжку (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300074425):

I, personally, have a story to tell: One of my friends- Russian emigre whose parents had to flee so that Khrusthev would not execute them- as he did to all those who he considered "Stalinists"- had a relative who is actually here in (United States of America) right now, who was unemployeed in the Soviet Union in the 40's. He found that there was a building work going on in Vorkutta, Siberia, examined and found it was GULAG. The only way to get there was to get arrested by NKVD. So, he went to NKVD and ASKED them to sent him there. They asked, "did you do a crime?", he replied "no, I'm looking for a work". In the camp, there were hundreds like him. You wouldn't even know who was a prisoner and who was a guard, and ordinary workers would form relations with prisoners and have children with them. They even had strike -guards, prisoners and everyone- when Khrustchev pulled coup de'tat and murdered Beria!

who was unemployeed in the Soviet Union in the 40's

Yeah, right...;-) Плохой английский выдает эмигранта в 1м поколении, что тем более удивительно.

А по-моему английский вполне характерен для не отягощенного излишней начитанностью американца.

Ага, и неотягощенный излишней начитанностью американец бросится писать рецензии в Амазоне на книгу о России:-))

Помимо ошибок, автор употребил несколько выражений, которые американец не употребит никогда:

building work=construction work
did you do a crime?= what's your crime? Did you commit any crime? What crime have you done/commit? Etc.
would form relations with prisoners=безграмотно, так не говорят
They even had strike=американец скажет they even went on strike

необязательно русский, но что не американец, это стопудово.

Безусловно не американец.

Meia Dawn (Canada) (http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/cal/DuBois.PDF)

Не понял? Там ссылка на какого-то Дю Буа.

В общем, занятный экземпляр. Наивность вплоть до веры в возможность безработицы в СССР 40х годов, плюс скверный английский?.. То ли франко-канадец, выросший в заповеднике маоизма, то ли совсем уж дремучая эмигрантская сволочь.

Это имя читается Дю Бойс, по правилам английского.

Ой, блин! Я нашел в сети один текст (http://members.fortunecity.com/overthrow2/newfile.html) этого/этой Meia Dawn!

Ten years ago, the fascist, imperialist ?Soviet Union? shrudded off its last pretences of ?socialism?. For those who had defended this brutal tyranny up to ultra-revisionist Gorbachev, this was a tragedy, and they were of course unable to understand why it happened. One still hears pathethic excuses, such as ?socialism in the Soviet Union and elsewhere did not fail, it was temporarily defeated by imperialist aggression that surrounded it.?

Instead, true Marxist-Leninists had been aware for about thirty years that

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this was about to happen. It didn?t come to us as any surprise, and certainly it was not a setback for the international Communist movement. On the contrary- perhaps this dissillusioment will bring some honest but mistaken Comrades, who had been in the ?pro-Soviet? camp during the past years back to Marxism-Leninism, though it appears clear that this shall apparently not take place from the initiative of their party leadership; from their part, one can only speak of such extreme reluctancy to accept self-criticism for this shallow idiocy that dominated our movement for decades and virtually paralyzed it that it should really be called textbook example of subjectivism.