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One Night in Winter, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
On the same day as the Victory Parade, with Stalin and the rest of the Central Committee only yards away, two children are shot and killed. The children were the sheltered children of the Soviet elite so, rather than having the matter rushed to a conclusion, the NKVD get involved. Once the characters of Simon Montefiore's One Night in Winter get caught in the machine of Soviet "justice," a small tragedy is transformed into a gigantic one.
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.