• Frostbeard@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 month ago

    Read about this in a Bill Bryson book. Cant remember the details. But during the 50s the US “government” discovered that a Finnish born man (with legal residens and married to an American woman) had been a member of the Finnish communist party in his youth. The shipped him out on the first plane for Europe, and only told gis wife after the plane landed