Is there a reliable list anywhere of American Communists who died in the Stalinist purges?
A friend claims that her great-aunt had actually married an American citizen back in the early days of the USSR. This individual was apprently purged and executed. With the great aunt long dead, none of the family can actually recall the name of the person. I am hoping that a list might be able to refresh their memory.
Well, they weren’t commies, and I don’t know if they were executed, but American pilots from the Vietnam War and Korean War are thought by some to have been shipped off to the USSR never to be seen again. Don’t know how reliable these sites are, just googled the particulars and picked a couple results.
Pretty hard for a Vietnam War era soldier to be killed in a Stalinist purge.
This site has “a” list (scroll to bottom) but the article seems to imply “hundreds of American leftists” vanished and this list is only 15 names long.
I’m intrested enough to bump this.
Keep it at the top of the list for Monday, & maybe we’ll get more info.
D’oh, my bad. Ignore me post please. :smack:
Alexander Dolgun was an American who probably should have become one of Stalin’s victims. Against great odds, he survived 24 years in the Gulag and was released in 1972. His book is one of the best first-hand accounts of that place and time.