"In 1935, during the ice age of Stalinism, Wittgenstein travelled to the Soviet Union and with typical eccentricity requested permission to become a manual worker there. The authorities were apparently less than enthused by this bizarre proposal." https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/revolutionizing-ourselves
AHC: The Soviets accept!
(This was apparently not the only time WIrrgenstein expressed an interest in settling in Russia: " In 1922 ludwig Wittgenstein wrote to a friend that he was haunted by the possibility of an eventual flight to Russia. About two years later he sent the same friend some newspaper clippings of prize-winning poems by workers, urging him to preserve them. In 1937 he wrote him again that he might go to Russia.footnote1 In the interim he had spent a short time there. G. H. von Wright, one of his literary executors,footnote2 writes that in 1935 Wittgenstein ‘had plans for settling in the Soviet Union. He visited the country with a friend and apparently was pleased with the visit. That nothing came of his plans was due, partly at least, to the harshening of conditions in Russia in the middle thirties.’footnote3 Wolfe Mays, a former student, writes that in the early forties Wittgenstein gave the impression in his classes of being ‘distinctively apolitical, despite his desire to live in Russia’'..." https://newleftreview.org/issues/i73/articles/john-moran-wittgenstein-and-russia.pdf)
AHC: The Soviets accept!
(This was apparently not the only time WIrrgenstein expressed an interest in settling in Russia: " In 1922 ludwig Wittgenstein wrote to a friend that he was haunted by the possibility of an eventual flight to Russia. About two years later he sent the same friend some newspaper clippings of prize-winning poems by workers, urging him to preserve them. In 1937 he wrote him again that he might go to Russia.footnote1 In the interim he had spent a short time there. G. H. von Wright, one of his literary executors,footnote2 writes that in 1935 Wittgenstein ‘had plans for settling in the Soviet Union. He visited the country with a friend and apparently was pleased with the visit. That nothing came of his plans was due, partly at least, to the harshening of conditions in Russia in the middle thirties.’footnote3 Wolfe Mays, a former student, writes that in the early forties Wittgenstein gave the impression in his classes of being ‘distinctively apolitical, despite his desire to live in Russia’'..." https://newleftreview.org/issues/i73/articles/john-moran-wittgenstein-and-russia.pdf)
