Victor Kravchenko (defector)
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Viktor Andriyovych Kravchenko was a Ukrainian-born Soviet defector, known for writing the best-selling book I Chose Freedom, published in 1946, about the realities of life in the Soviet Union.
Victor Kravchenko Crop
Poster featuring Victor Kravchenko (2015)
Joseph E. Davies
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Joseph Edward Davies was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915 to be the first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. From 1936 to 1938, Davies was t
Victor Kravchenko (defector)
…requested political asylum in the United States. However, the Soviet authorities demanded his immediate extradition, calling him a traitor, and ambassador Joseph E. Davies appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt directly on behalf of Joseph Stalin to have Kravchenko extradited. He was granted asylum, but lived under…
Davies in 1939
Joseph Davies at Shenandoah inquiry, November 1925.
Davies with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during his second "Mission to Moscow," May 1943.