Is white Russians a red threat? Fitzpatrick Sh.

Russians in Australia - the new work of the famous Australian and American historian Sheila Fitzpatrick is devoted to this unusual topic. After the Second World War, it was the green continent that became the new homeland for thousands of displaced persons - people who were scattered across Europe during the war and, for various reasons, who did not want to return home in the USSR. In turn, the Australian authorities sought to solve the problem of lack of workers in the country, so cooperation, not being cloudless or ideal, was still mutually beneficial: thousands of people plunged into steamers to go to a new life.

The second stream Russian immigrants poured out of Manchuria, where an extensive Russian diaspora has been living for several decades, which was formed during the construction of the CRC. But with the coming to the power of the Chinese Communists, the Russians were forced to leave their own places, and Australia became a new home for many of them.

These travels were full of dramatic events, sometimes detective turns, when even “the most ordinary person with a big the probability could tell the most unusual story of the wanderings experienced. "