Alexander Gelver

Alexander Gelver
Born 1914
Died 1938
Nationality American

Alexander Gelver (1914-1938) was an American defector to the Soviet Union who was taken there by his parents. Gelver was originally from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. At 24 years old, he wanted to return to the United States. He was stopped by Soviet police outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. On New Year's Day 1938 he was executed. He was accused of spreading the belief that there was a better life to be had outside communist Russia around the factory where he had worked.[1]

In 1997 it was learned that he was executed by the secret police in 1938.[2][3]

Notes

  1. ↑ "1 January 1938 – Alexander Gelver". Execution of the day. 2011-01-01. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
  2. ↑ For American Defectors To Russia, An Unhappy History, National Public Radio, (July 25, 2013).
  3. ↑ Alan Cullison, Stalin-Era Secret Police Documents Detail Arrest, Execution of Americans, (November 09, 1997)
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