What Soviet Dictators Have Done in the Past

[Smaland]

Title of Original Post: U.S. Territory Stolen by the Soviet Union in 1924

"This Google Earth image shows Wrangel Island, which is located in the Arctic Ocean in Russia’s far east. The island was seized by Russians in 1924 after Americans had settled there." "Wrangel Island is 270 miles northwest of Cape Lisburne, Alaska, in the Arctic Ocean in Russia's far east, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea." The photo and the above quotations were both posted at the article linked to below.

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In 1881, U.S. Revenue Cutter Service Capt. Calvin Hooper and his crew landed on Wrangel Island where they raised the American flag. Hooper was the de facto governor of Alaska, which had been purchased by the U.S. from Russia 14 years earlier.

("Thomas Emanuel Dans, who was a commissioner of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission in 2021 ",) said there is an extensive contemporaneous record of Wrangel—and the neighboring De Long Islands—being claimed as U.S. territory.

Wrangel saw its first group of permanent settlers in 1921 but in 1924 it was seized by Bolshevik henchmen on the Soviet gunboat "Red October" and the American settlers were arrested and detained, with some dying in captivity.
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Within the larger quotation just above, the descriptive quote about Mr. Dans is from another part of the article.

Full story in Newsweek

[Smaland]

Above is a photo of Wallenberg, from a "passport photo from June 1944". The photo and the preceding quotation are both from the Wiki article about him. The Soviet government eventually said (in 1957) that he died in a Soviet prison in 1947, but there are those who say that Wallenberg lived for a period of time afterward.

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The Soviet government cleared up a 12-year-old mystery today by acknowledging that missing Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg died at Soviet secret police headquarters in Moscow in 1947.
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A Soviet note to the Swedish government today (February 8, 1957) said Wallenberg died 'suddenly in the night in his cell' (in Lubyanka prison, which houses Soviet police headquarters.) Death "presumably" was from a heart attack -- a myocardiac thrombosis -- it added, and occurred on July 17, 1947. At that time Wallenberg was 36.
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When the Soviet Army entered Budapest (in 1945), Wallenberg, as a diplomat representing a country with which the Soviet Union had relations, possessed immunity from arrest. But five days later he was in the custody of Soviet police.

Newspaper source: "12-Year Mystery Solved: Swede Died in Red Jail", The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA), February 8, 1957, p. 2.

[Smaland]

These photos of Stalin and Boris Yeltsin were taken from the Wiki articles about them.

WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union under dictator Josef Stalin 'summarily executed' some American prisoners after World War II and forced others, some of whom are still alive, to renounce their citizenship, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin said in a letter (read) to a Senate committee (on Wednesday, November 11, 1992 by Russian envoy Dmitri Volkogonov).
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Yeltsin’s letter spoke only in general terms of newly discovered documents indicating 'the shocking facts' of some prisoners being executed by the regime of Stalin 'and in a number of cases being forced to renounce their U.S. citizenship.'
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(In testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs, Volkogonov said that) Soviet authorities detained 119 American servicemen 'with Russian, Ukrainian or Jewish names' from the more than 22,000 GIs they liberated from German POW camps at the end of World War II. Although most were later released after U.S. protests, 18 died in Soviet custody, while 'some ended up staying in camps for a long time.'
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Full story in the Los Angeles Times

[Loki]

Moved to History forum.

[Smaland]

The following is the introductory paragraph from the Wiki article "Guerrilla war in the Baltic states":

The guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an insurgency waged by Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian) partisans against the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1956. Known alternatively as the "Forest Brothers", the "Brothers of the Wood" and the "Forest Friars" (Estonian: metsavennad, Latvian: mežabrāļi, Lithuanian: žaliukai), these partisans fought against invading Soviet forces during their occupation of the Baltic states during and after World War II. Similar insurgent groups resisted Soviet occupations in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Ukraine.

[Smaland]

In the first row of photos above, U.S. film actor John Wayne (1907-1979) is on the L, and Stalin (1878-1953) is on the R. The photo of Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) is just below the photo of Wayne; Khrushchev was the Soviet leader following Stalin. The images of both Wayne and Khrushchev were posted at the Wiki articles about them, and the image of Stalin is posted in the Wikimedia commons.

The 2003 book John Wayne: The Man Behind The Myth, by biographer Michael Munn, is the basis for the Los Angeles Times news story quoted next, and for an article in The Guardian linked to afterward.

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was so outraged at the anti-communism of film star John Wayne that he plotted to have him murdered, according to a new biography of the American actor.

John Wayne -- The Man Behind the Myth by British writer and actor Michael Munn says that there were several attempts in the late 1940s and early 1950s to kill the man known to audiences around the world as (the) 'Duke.'

In the first attempt, two Russian assassins posing as FBI agents tried to kill Wayne ... in his office at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank (CA).

But the plot was uncovered and the would-be killers captured, the book says, citing several sources, including the late director Orson Welles.
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This article also says that ...

• there was another attempt on Wayne's life during the filming of the Western movie Hondo, "which was released in 1953" (quotation from the The Guardian article linked to below)
• Khrushchev later rescinded Stalin's assassination orders

Full story in the Los Angeles Times

The 2003 news story in The Guardian is linked to here, and it goes into more detail on the subject.

[Smaland]

This was a song sung by "Finnish Infantry Regiment 200", the Regiment saw action during the Continuation War of 1941-44 against the Soviet Union, and it was composed "mostly of Estonian volunteers". In order, the quotations are from the title Wiki article about the Regiment, and from the article itself.

[Smaland]

According to this news report, Ksenia Karelina, a dual American / Russian citizen who has resided in L.A., has arrested by the FSB. She was arrested on charges of "committing state treason", and the reporter also says that the charges are based upon the fact that "she sent about $50 to a New York-based nonprofit that sends assistance to Ukraine". This video reports on a news event of the present day, but it still fits the topic of this thread: what Soviet dictators are capable of doing.

Note: "Karelina" is taken from the Daily Mail article about her.



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[Smaland]

[Anglo-Celtic]

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