"The major anti-Communist publicity extravaganza mounted by the State Department and the CIA in France in 1949 was the Kravchenko affair. The Russian defectorâs account of his experiences during the Stalin years, titled I Chose Freedom, sold 400,000 copies in France."
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Irwin M. Wall, The United States and the making of Postwar France, 1945-1954, Cambridge University Press, (1991) p. 151
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Victor Kravchenko
Victor Andreevich Kravchenko (11 October 1905 â 25 February 1966) 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.
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