More Defections

The 1900s have seen to many oppressive dictatorships. At least some had a tendency to kill their killers. So the natural response should be to leave the country as soon as things start to go the wrong way. Still, not many did defect. Some possible exeptions is Lin Biao and Rudolf Hess but it's not clear what happened in the first case and the second was more about making peace.

Still, it is cool when it happens and it would be cool if it happened more often. Who could defect?

Discuss.
 
Bumpedibump. I'v read that most of the early KGB* bosses got purged, I'm suprised anybody trusted Hitler after what he did to Röhm and so on.
 
Bumpedibump. I'v read that most of the early KGB* bosses got purged, I'm suprised anybody trusted Hitler after what he did to Röhm and so on.

That would be Serov, I believe, right?

Given Stalin's ruthlessness towards his own officials, I think once someone sucessfully flees the Soviet Union with their families--perhaps to the UK or Japan--it would start a rush of paranoid officials. One would be hard pressed to wonder what would have happened if someone like Yezhov attempted to flee the country. :eek:
 
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