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"The German Democratic Republic (GDR) in its way, which was very complicated (that I would come to with the bad parts), but it was trying to establish a society where nobody was poor, where poverty was done away with. And it largely succeeded in this. In fact, one of the main things I think of when I go through the streets coming now to visit the States again, in all the years, 38 years I lived there, I didn't see one single person sleeping in a street or one single beggar."
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Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler, a New York red-diaper baby of the 1930s, joined the Communist Party as a Harvard student. Fleeing the U.S. Army during the McCarthy Era, he swam the Danube River to the Soviet Zone of Austria and was sent to East Germany. There, he studied journalism and became a freelance writer and popular speaker. He was pardoned by the U.S. Army in 1994 and, in 2003, published an autobiography, Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany ((U. of Mass.Press). Victor Grossman will be visiting Washington, DC from May 15-May 18 on a national book tour of his latest book weighing problems of GDR socialism and modern capitalism entitled A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee by Monthly Review press.