Socialist Defector

Circumstances impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence: especially the icy pressures of the McCarthy Era. Grossman - a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his years at Harvard and, briefly, as a factory worker - left his barracks in Bavaria one August day in 1952, and

Circumstantele l-au impins pe Victor Grossman, un reprezentant al armatei americane stationat in Europa, sa fuga de o sentinta de inchisoare militara: in special presiunile inghetate din era McCarthy.