In the book, he describes the suspicion he was met with by both the Soviet Latvian authorities, and by his fellow émigrés, who questioned his motives for researching the history of pro-Bolshevik Latvians.
I bogen beskrives den mistro han mødtes med, både af de sovjetisk-lettiske myndigheder og af sine medemigranter, der satte spørgsmålstegn ved hans motiver for at researche historien omkring pro-bolshevistiske letter.