Жак-француз. В память о гулаге

Zhak-frant͡suz - tak nazyvali druzʹi͡a-zėki Zhaka Rossi (1909-2004). Lingvist, poliglot, khudozhnik, ubezhdennyĭ kommunist, taĭnyĭ agent Kominterna, zakli͡uchennyĭ, otsidevshiĭ v stalinskikh ti͡urʹmakh i lageri͡akh dvadt͡satʹ let, on priobrel izvestnostʹ kak avtor t͡senneĭshego issledovanii͡a, "Spravochnika po GULAGu", kotoryĭ zadumyval za Poli͡arnym krugom, na lesopovale i "stroĭkakh kommunizma", ukhitri͡ai͡asʹ s riskom dli͡a zhizni pripri͡atyvatʹ sobrannye materialy, zapisannye na klochkakh obertochnoĭ bumagi. Vernuvshisʹ vo Frant͡sii͡u v 1964 godu, on schitaet svoim dolgom svidetelʹstvovatʹ o tom, chto sam videl i ispytal, neustanno razoblachaet kommunisticheskui͡u idei͡u. V soavtorstve s pisatelʹnit͡seĭ Mishelʹ Sard on rasskazal v ėtoĭ knige o svoikh zabluzhdenii͡akh, o tom kakoĭ t͡senoĭ za nikh zaplatil, podelilsi͡a nabli͡udenii͡ami, to tragicheskimi, to smeshnymi, i razmyshlenii͡ami o tom, chto zavelo milliony li͡udeĭ v tupik pagubnoĭ utopii.

Jacques-Frenchman — so called friends-cons Jacques Rossi (1909-2004). A linguist, a polyglot, an artist, a convinced Communist, a secret agent of the Comintern, a prisoner who had served in Stalin's prisons and camps for twenty years, he became known as the author of a valuable study, "Guide to the Gulag", which was conceived in the Arctic circle, on the logging and "construction of communism", managing with the risk of life to hide the collected materials recorded on scraps of wrapping paper. Having returned to France in 1964, he considers it his duty to bear witness to what he has seen and experienced, relentlessly exposing the Communist idea. In co-authorship with the writer Michelle Sarde, he told in this book about his mistakes, about the price he paid for them, shared his observations, tragic, then funny, and reflections on what led millions of people to a dead end of a pernicious utopia.