Spartak Kotlyarevsky wanted a peaceful life, but the Second World War took his dream away. He wanted to love, but the war got in the way of his happiness. He longed for freedom, but the NKVD took it from him. And Spartak, like his namesake—the Roman gladiator—had only one exit two thousand years ago: REBELLION! He was a Russian pilot who bombed Berlin in August 1941. Instead of the Star of the Hero, he received a prison sentence. But he didn’t give up—he organized the largest uprising of prisoners in the entire history of the Soviet regime. Against fate, Spartak broke free and returned to his beloved…