Scott transforms the way he speaks of pain and loss throughout the book in order to justify the means by which Stalin made things happen for this country. I do not believe however that Scott thinks any less of these lives, but instead he can see what was necessary in order to move forward. He personally got to experience the success after years of hardship. Even when he was not allowed to work anymore because he was a foreigner, he never questioned or fought the decision of the people via Stalin (Scott 230). He allows the justification of all these losses, the many lives and his own job, to give him peace and allow him to appreciate the progress Russia really had made in those years. This is why I believe Scott is a true believer of the USSR. I thought that Scott’s experience was vastly fascinating and I was intrigued the entire book, what an incredibly sad but also rewarding way to
Scott transforms the way he speaks of pain and loss throughout the book in order to justify the means by which Stalin made things happen for this country. I do not believe however that Scott thinks any less of these lives, but instead he can see what was necessary in order to move forward. He personally got to experience the success after years of hardship. Even when he was not allowed to work anymore because he was a foreigner, he never questioned or fought the decision of the people via Stalin (Scott 230). He allows the justification of all these losses, the many lives and his own job, to give him peace and allow him to appreciate the progress Russia really had made in those years. This is why I believe Scott is a true believer of the USSR. I thought that Scott’s experience was vastly fascinating and I was intrigued the entire book, what an incredibly sad but also rewarding way to