The 100,000 Liberals Who Marched Into the Soviet Gulag - At the height of the Terror, the American emigrants had besieged their embassy, begging for passports so they could leave Russia.
They were turned away only to be arrested on the pavement outside by lurking NKVD agents. The emigrants began their long journey either into the prison cells and the Gulag camps, or the shorter route to the execution grounds.
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