Existing comment:
Trevelyan's intense hatred of Britain is based on a real incident. At the end of World War II, many Russian Cossack soldiers who had joined the Nazis to defeat the communist Cossack soldiers regime in their homeland surrendered to the British in hopes of receiving asylum. Thousands were forcibly sent back to the USSR, along with many of their wives and children. The Soviets shipped most to Siberia, and few survived. As Bond notes: "Not exactly our finest hour." |