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Alexis Babin in Saratov.He worked as an interpreter with the ARA. He left a stupendous diary of his daily life experience and events in Saratove region during the Civil war and Famine. He emigrated to the US with the help of ARA in 1922. |
The ARA’s counter-propaganda poster. Many people in Russia, misled by the Soviet propaganda machine, thought that American relief had not been a donation but, at best, a commercial enterprise (at worst – an attempt to invade the country). |
From the Soviet popular journal ‘Ogonyok’, Sepetmber 1923 ?.: a new anti-ARA company was launched in Soviet Russia. In this case, the former director of the ARA Russian unit William Haskell is caricatured. Later on, those who cooperated with the ARA will have been arrested. ARA will be sunk to olivion. |
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Americans from the ARA in Simbirsk. |
Margaret Harrison, an American journalist and writer (and a spy as well), was released from the Soviet prison because of Hoover’s insistence to let all Americans go from Russia in exchange for reaching an agreement with the ARA to bring a humanitarian assistance to Russia. |
Charlie Veil of ARA in a company with a Soviet Plenipotentiary. |
