Life Under Tyranny

About the Book

The non-fiction book, “Life Under Tyranny” provides historical information about life under a tyrannical government. Newly available released documents from Ukrainian Archives in Odessa, Ukraine, detail the atrocities Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin perpetrated on ethnic Germans living in Ukraine, covering the years from the Russian Revolution to the beginning of World War II. Goldade, with the assistance of associates in Odessa, Ukraine, has retrieved numerous documents from Ukrainian archives covering this dark era. Peter Goldade’s Life Under Tyranny sheds new light on Soviet confiscation of property, deprivations inflicted, and the kangaroo courts that sentenced untold numbers of people to prison, hard labor, gulags—or execution.

About the Author

Peter Goldade was born in North Dakota and reared on his grandfather’s homestead. He served three years in the U.S. Army as a Staff Sergeant in Radio and communications. He was employed for thirty-four years by a major U. S. Aerospace firm as a Sales-Marketing Manager. Upon his retirement, he began to devote more time to one of his hobbies-genealogy. His quest for knowledge of his family’s lineage has spanned many years and nations. In search for his family roots and related data, his travels have taken him, on numerous occasions, to Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia. The information obtained from this research, meeting with long lost relatives and his journeys led to the creation of this and his other books.