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Article: A troika of agitators: three Comintern liaison agents in Australia, 1920-22.
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- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Thus wrote one of Paul Freeman's close comrades, Alexander Zuzenko, in Moscow on 15 August 1920 while preparations were in train to send both men, recent deportees from Australia, back on a liaison mission for the Third International, to nurture the infant communist movement there.
Comrade Simonoff was appointed consul-general in Australia [...],dreaming perhaps of becoming an official of Soviet Russia, whowould sit in an office issuing passports to departing Russians[...] and nothing more.
Thus Zuzenko on 30 April 1920, describing the comrade-in-arms who had shared his hardships in the struggle for socialism in Queensland. (2)
Comrade Miller ...