Beria’s Gardens~Unto Parvilahti~1960~Good Condition~Rare~Dust Cover~Slave Laborer~Soviet Union~Free Shipping

Beria’s Gardens~Unto Parvilahti~1960~Good Condition~Rare~Dust Cover~Slave Laborer~Soviet Union~Free Shipping. Former library book. Owner nameplate. See photos for condition. Tight binding. Dust Cover.

“Unto Ilmari Parvilahti (until 1944 Boman; September 28, 1907 Maaria – October 27, 1970 Málaga, Spain)[1] was a Finnish photographer and businessman who served from 1941 to 1944 as the head of the liaison office of the volunteer Finnish SS battalion in Berlin. After being handed over to the Soviet Union among the so-called Leino's prisoners in 1945, he spent several years there in prison camps. After returning to Finland, he wrote the memoir Beria's Gardens (1957), in which he describes Soviet prisons based on his own experiences. He was an ardent supporter of Nazism.

During his imprisonment, Parvilahti learned the Russian language, knew how to behave during interrogations and was able to adapt well to prison activities. This all helped him to survive.[22] He spent the first two years of his sentence in the Temnikov forced labor camp, from where he was transferred in 1947 to solitary confinement in the Vladimir prison. The conditions in the prison were better than the camp and the transfer could have saved his life. The five-year sentence was completed in April 1950, but Parvilahti was not allowed to return to Finland, but was deported to Siberia, to Dudinka, located in the middle of the tundra on the Taimyr Peninsula. There he worked, among other things, as a sawmill worker. Thanks to the mass amnesties that followed Stalin's death, the deportation was canceled in the summer of 1954, but leaving the country was not arranged immediately. Parvilahti spent the autumn in Moscow and Petrozavodsk.[20] He was able to return to Finland on December 12, 1954.[23] Parvilahti and German-born Richard Dahm, who returned at the same time, were the first of Leino's prisoners to return to Finland. Nine others returned over the next two years.” - From Wikipedia

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