“…István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women. …”

“…Tukhachevsky was instrumental in suppressing the Kronstadt rebellion (1921) against Bolshevik rule, and he led the modernization and mechanization of the Red Army (1935–36). In the purges instituted by Stalin in the 1930s he and seven other generals were charged with treason, tried in secret, and executed. …”

“…His political career and his regime are recreated with the help of Dmitri Volkogonov, former general in the Red Army, author of one of the many biographies of Stalin published in the past decades. …”