![]() ![]() This seemingly minor incident brought an end to a nearly four-decade saga of exile, imprisonment, and survival and years of diplomatic wrangling. ![]() ![]() After a tense exchange with customs officials, the man and his family were grudgingly permitted to board a flight to Vienna. On December 21st, 1971, while serving at the American embassy in Moscow, he escorted a nervous man through the Sheremetyevo International Airport. In the interview, he recounted his career in the foreign service, and one case in particular that defined it. Some of them survived despite the hell of the Gulag prison camps and told their stories.īuried within the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection at the United States Library of Congress is an interview with a man named Peter Swiers. In the next decade many of these people would perish in the waves of politically motivated communist repressions. Henry Prown (a PhD candidate in American Studies from the College of William & Mary) brings to light the faith of Americans, who engaged in a largely forgotten mass migration to the communist USSR in the early 1930s. ![]()
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