Many CPUSA mambers of the day dutifully reported to Moscow for execution when ordered to do so by Stalin. People all over the world were victims of the purges and show trials and did nothing to escape their fate. Such true-belivers of such a failed fantasy!
Many CPUSA mambers of the day dutifully reported to Moscow for execution when ordered to do so by Stalin. That's something I never heard before. Can you back it up?
Of course, they may have been summoned under some other pretext. But to go thousands of miles to their deaths, knowingly and willingly? I find that rather hard to believe.
-ccm