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"Foreign governments requested his counsel on agricultural matters: Joseph Stalin, for example, in 1931 invited him to superintend cotton plantations in southern Russia and to make a tour of the Soviet Union, but Carver refused." http://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Washington-Carver

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Pravda
October 29, 1937

G. W. Carver was convicted yesterday by the Supreme Court of the USSR of wrecking activities.

Carver, an American, has been resident in the USSR since 1931, when he arrived in the country, allegedly to help Soviet agriculture and industry. In fact, he was from the beginning an agent of imperialist intelligence services, and an accomplice of Leon Trotsky, with whom he secretly met on an alleged "scientific mission" to Turkey before arriving in the USSR. The Carver-Trotsky plan was to undermine the Soviet state by large-scale schemes to convert large amounts of farmland to peanut production, so that there would not be enough grain and Soviet people would starve. Meanwhile, most of the supposed uses for the peanut which Carver claimed to have discovered turned out to be fraudulent.

Carver's guilt was established by his own confession as well as by the confessions of his accomplices.

Carver was convicted under Article 58-7 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, which provides that

"The undermining of state production, transport, trade, monetary relations or the credit system, or likewise cooperation, done with counterrevolutionary purposes, by means of corresponding use of state institutions and enterprises or impeding their normal activity, and likewise use of state institutions and enterprises or impeding their activity, done in the interests of former owners or interested capitalist organizations, shall be punishable by--measures of social defense, indicated in article 58-2 of this code."
http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/uk58-e.html#58-7

Considering the especially grave consequences of Carver's wrecking activities, he was sentenced to the supreme measure of social defense--shooting.

Those present at the trial greeted the verdict with great satisfaction. The response from progressive people throughout the world has also been favorable. Paul Robeson has stated that "American Negroes have always known Carver as an Uncle Tom who did nothing to fight for his people's rights, so it really is no surprise that he has been shown to be an enemy of the USSR."

Carver's appeal for clemency has been rejected by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

The sentence has been carried out.
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