Metro-Vickers Affair
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Metro-Vickers Affair
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The Metro-Vickers Affair was an international crisis precipitated by the arrest of six British subjects who were employees of Metropolitan-Vickers, and their public trial in 1933 by the authorities in the Soviet Union on charges of "wrecking" and espionage. The show trial garnered international press coverage, generated broad public criticism over alleged violations of legal process, and resulted in the conviction and ultimate deportation of the defendants, following extensive diplomatic pressur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-Vickers_Affair
date created:
2016-08-11T18:36:28Z
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2024-08-27T03:44:10Z
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