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John H. Noble, an American who wrote about his nine-and-a-half-year imprisonment in the notorious Soviet Gulag in his 1958 book, I Was A Slave In Russia, died on November 10 in Dresden, Germany, at the age of 84.
Noble's story was his firsthand account of the living Hell created by the communist slave masters. He believed that the Soviets had arrested many Americans immediately after World War II and as late as 1955--10 years after the war--still held 3,000. The State Department denied that it knew about such American captives.
Noble was in Dresden, Germany, visiting his father's camera company, when the Soviets occupied the city on May 6, 1945. The Nobles were advised by the American military to sit tight because the Soviet Union was "an ally." They did, and John and his father, Charles, were ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The passing of John Noble, Soviet Gulag survivor.(Inside...