Word: valtin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copies. It told how OGPU agents murdered on order-and saw to it that the murders looked like accidents. It told how they kidnapped their enemies-and the kidnappings looked like unsolved disappearances. The work of a German ex-Communist who wrote under the name of Jan Valtin, it painted a savage picture of the depravity of the Comintern, OGPU agents, the world's Communist parties...
...NIGHT-Jan Valtin-Alliance...
This week another deserter stepped out of the night and spoke his piece. He had no face and no identity. He called himself Jan Valtin. He claimed that he was: 1) an ex-German Communist; 2) an ex-international organizer of seamen and harbor workers; 3) an ex-agent of the Communist International; 4) an ex-co-worker of the OGPU; 5) an escaped prisoner of the Gestapo; 6) an escaped prisoner of the OGPU; 7) a man wanted dead or alive by both. What he had to tell seemed pretty well to substantiate his claims...
...movement. It describes how strikes in Europe were fomented, and sometimes broken by the fomenter when they conflicted with Soviet policy. It describes the methods whereby a single experienced Communist sailor can disrupt a whole ship by sabotage. It describes how the 1923 Communist uprising in Germany (in which Valtin led a detachment) was organized, then called off by Moscow after fighting began...
...Night is an autobiography, but through its pages slinks many a Communist bigwig. There is Bulgarian Comrade Georgi Dimitrov, now secretary of the Communist International, once hero of the Reichstag fire trial. Valtin reveals him as the flabby, dandified, over-perfumed head (for many years) of the Comintern's West European underground section. There is sly, foxy Heinz Neumann, who plotted the 1927 uprising in Canton, China. Once Stalin's darling, he was shot in Stalin's Purge. There is George Mink, ex-Philadelphia taxi driver, Communist organizer of New York's water front, OGPU gunman...