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Article: U.S. Leftists Met Fate in `Workers' Paradise'.(disappearance of American leftists who moved to Soviet Union in 1920s and 1930s)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- August 23, 1999
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Hundreds of American leftists who moved to the Soviet Union to sample the wonders of Josef Stalin's communist regime in the 1920s and 1930s disappeared without a trace. According to a report by the Associated Press based on previously secret Soviet files, State Department declassified documents and interviews with survivors of Stalinist purges, there is "reason to believe" that many of those who disappeared were executed -- shot, usually in the back of the head with a small-caliber pistol -- for crimes such as wearing American clothes or talking favorably about life in the United States.
Some of those Americans who went missing had been ...