"For a political prisoner, an attempt to escape from the
uranium mines was treated in the communist judicial system as high
treason. A political prisoner was obviously going divulge
information about the mines to the American and British
intelligence services. This was high treason. High treason earned
the 'highest penalty', as it was called in the courts. The
highest penalty was hanging." "Seven for the Run" is
the gripping, true story of a daring escape from a communist prison
camp during the height of the Cold War. Sensitively and movingly
told by one of the escapees, Ivan Pluha, the narrative is a
suspenseful account of the discipline, careful planning, and wily
ingenuity of a cadre of political prisoners desperate to escape
long terms of imprisonment in a communist uranium mine in western
Czechoslovakia. Pluha tells the harrowing story of his arrest,
interrogation, and imprisonment for underground activities against
the Soviet-backed Marxist regime.
