Originally published in 1950, I Chose Justice details Soviet defector Victor Kravchenko's "e;trial of the century"e; in France.When the French Communist weekly Les Lettres Francaises launched an attack on Kravchenko's character by alleging that his 1946 memoir I Chose Freedom had been concocted by the Mensheviks & the U.S. Intelligence Service, Kravchenko filed a lawsuit for libel in a French court.The resultant lengthy trial in 1949 featured hundreds of witnesses, with the Soviet Union flying in Kravchenko's former colleagues to denounce him, accusing him of being a traitor, a draft dodger, and an embezzler. Even Kravchenko's ex-wife was summonsed to appear for the defence.Kravchenko's lawyers presented witnesses who had survived the Soviet prison camp system, including Margarete Buber-Neumann, the widow of German Communist Heinz Neumann, who had been shot during the Great Purge. As a survivor of both Soviet and Nazi concentration camps, her testimony corroborated Kravchenko's allegations concerning the essential similarities between the two dictatorships.A fascinating account.