Word: fujii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tsumoru Fujii had been at Ulan Ude near Lake Baikal. His story was typical. This P.W. camp was run by a seven-man "antifascist committee" made up of captives who had gone through a two-month political school at Nakhodka, near Vladivostok. Five nights a week, Fujii and his fellow prisoners would trudge off to hear a two-hour lecture. Last November, prisoners were told how Henry Wallace had been defrauded of the U.S. presidency by vote-buying and illegal balloting organized by Democrats and Republicans. Recently they were told that MacArthur was forcibly taking rice from Japanese farmers...
When he refused to attend propaganda movies, Fujii was brought before a "People's Court." As punishment, he was thrown into the middle of a ring of prisoners, then kicked and beaten from one side to the other...