The USSR killed thousands of US communists...

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Interesting bit of history that I haven't read much about.

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/ar...llZTJkZDExY2E=
http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page99.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today...00/7537585.stm

Inside, the American diplomats had known about these disappearances almost from the very beginning. But they did little to save their fellow countrymen, whom they had christened "the captured Americans."
Thousands killed
The emigrants began their long journey either into the prison cells and the Gulag camps, or the shorter route to the execution grounds