As a military propagandist, he fled the North by jumping off a train. In the South, he broadcast forbidden outside news to isolated North Koreans.
Category: Defectors (Political)
Valery Panov, Ballet Star Who Fought to Leave the U.S.S.R., Dies at 87
Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews.
