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Western émigré victims[edit]
Some victims of the terror were American immigrants to the Soviet Union, who had emigrated at the height of the Great Depression to find work. At the height of the Terror, American immigrants besieged the US embassy, begging for passports so they could leave the Soviet Union. They were turned away by embassy officials, only to be arrested on the pavement outside by lurking NKVD agents. Many were subsequently shot dead at Butovo Field near Scherbinka, south of Moscow.[59] In addition, 141 American Communists of Finnish origin were executed and buried at Sandarmokh.[60] 127 Finnish Canadians were also shot and buried there.[61]
Great Purge - Wikipedia
Some victims of the terror were American immigrants to the Soviet Union, who had emigrated at the height of the Great Depression to find work. At the height of the Terror, American immigrants besieged the US embassy, begging for passports so they could leave the Soviet Union. They were turned away by embassy officials, only to be arrested on the pavement outside by lurking NKVD agents. Many were subsequently shot dead at Butovo Field near Scherbinka, south of Moscow.[59] In addition, 141 American Communists of Finnish origin were executed and buried at Sandarmokh.[60] 127 Finnish Canadians were also shot and buried there.[61]
Great Purge - Wikipedia