The Nation - News from March 5, 1985
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a deportation order for an 81-year-old man accused of World War II war crimes in Latvia after lawyers argued that the order was “tantamount to a death sentence.” Boleslavs Maikovskis, a retired carpenter from Mineola, N.Y., feared he would be deported to the Soviet Union where he faces death by firing squad. Maikovskis was convicted in absentia in 1965 by a Soviet court of ordering the arrest of 200 to 300 suspected Communist sympathizers in the village of Audrini in 1942. The villagers were later shot and the town was burned to the ground.
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