They always say he or she was "persecuted for their beliefs", but they never come out and say that these people were card-carrying members of the Soviet Communist Party. You'd think they would adopt the Seinfeld approach like "OK, Garfield was a Communist...not that there's anything wrong with that!" They never do that though. They just say he had "unpopular views" and was persecuted for not naming names or some such rot.