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Lovett Fort-Whiteman (view source)
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'''Lovett Fort-Whiteman''' was an American communist activist and a senior official with the [[CPUSA]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NSyFAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA273 Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943]</ref> who was born in Dallas, Texas, but died as a slave in a Soviet gulag.
He was captured in 1937 during the [[Great Purges]] in the Soviet Union,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=umYjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 Watching the red dawn: The American avant-garde and the Soviet Union]</ref> and sentenced to hard labor in the gulag in the gold fields at Kolyma, Siberia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u-o5jqehzvcC&pg=PA246 The Soviet World of American Communism]</ref> He died there in 1939 of overwork and malnutrition.
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He was captured in 1937 during the [[Great Purges]] in the Soviet Union,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=umYjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 Watching the red dawn: The American avant-garde and the Soviet Union]</ref> and sentenced to hard labor in the gulag in the gold fields at Kolyma, Siberia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u-o5jqehzvcC&pg=PA246 The Soviet World of American Communism]</ref> He died there in 1939 of overwork and malnutrition.
==References==
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[[Category:Communists]]