Dangerous Dreamers
The Australian Anti-Democratic Left and Czechoslovak Agents
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In 1971 the government of Western Australia published a book on Soviet Society for the indoctrination of its high school students in order to make communists out of them. The author was a Greek kidnapped during the civil was and educated in Czechoslovakia, then sent to Australia. The Czechoslovak secret service employed a young "bourgeois" whose task was to seduce secretaries at the British Embassy in Prague in order to obtain from them information. After several years, they decided that he could not be trusted, although his official job was to lie. The Communist Party of Australia was getting high percentage from selling large quantities of wool to Communist countries. The important historian of Australia, Manning Clark, when he lost his faith in God renewed it by believing in Lenin instead. This typical bourgeois wanted to lead an anti-bourgeois revolution in Australia. Another historian, Humphrey McQueen for years believed rather in Mao Tse-tung. Harry Stein - "Tropical Organizer" of immigrants.
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Australian spy Ian Milner was suspected of working for Soviet and Czechoslovak secret services on four continents. He served at the United Nations in New York, and the FBI followed him day and night before eventually declaring he was not a spy. But secret documents from Prague show he was spying all along.
Wilfred Burchett claimed to be an independent Australian journalist. He wrote dozens of books, and Prague documents prove that he was a secret member of the Communist Party of Australia. He also worked for Soviet, Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese secret services.
Drawing upon past secret documents of Australian, Czechoslovak and U.S. secret agencies along with important Soviet records, historian and professor Peter Hruby, who grew up under Communist rule and taught in Australia for decades, uncovers the secrets of the ideology and its manipulative advocates.
Along with the stories of spies previously unknown or overlooked, also discover:
- How Communists pushed for revolution in Australia
- The role of writers and artists in the struggle
- How terrorists and politicians influenced the movement
- And much more!
About the Author
Peter Hruby is a native of Prague, Czechoslovakia. He lived in Australia from 1971 to 2000, teaching at universities and observing culture and politics, and is the author of two previous books about Communism. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.