It would be quite a gargantuan task to enumerate as many defectors as possible who chose (or not) to return to their respective Soviet bloc country. In his book "Soviet Defectors, The KGB Wanted List", Prof. Vladislav Krasnov gives a list of 50 known, lesser known or totally unknown Soviet defectors "who returned or were forced to return to the USSR" ( p.207–210 ). Names as Svetlana Alliluyeva, Anatoly Barsov, Oleg Bitov, Anatoly Chebotarev, Aleksey Golub, Aleksandr Istomin, Sergey Kozlov, Simas Kudirka, join others like the three Soviet soldiers who defected from their troops in Afghanistan (Oleg Khlan, Igor Rykhov, Nikolay Ryzhkov) in 1983. Other names that can be added are: EXHIBIT NO. 9 THE NOTION OF DEFECTOR: ATTEMPT TO DEFINE AND COMPARE. Etienne M. Huygens 1st edition: Etienne Huygens Research Director October 1986. Revised: Etienne Huygens August 1987. About the author: Belgian citizen, Etienne Huygens arrived in the US in April 1982 and resides in Northern Virginia. He holds a law degree of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and specialized in European and International Law at the Graduate Institute of European Studies in Stras bourg, France and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He was research director at the Jamestown Foundation, June 1985 to January 1987 and is currently a free lance researcher and writer on matters concerning Soviet bloc defections. Acknowledgement: My sincerest thanks to Paul Schelp, graduate of Georgetown University, for his helpful contribution to this Definition paper. |