NATION : Stalin Aide Charges Dropped
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Prosecutors dropped assault and harassment charges against a man who once served as the bodyguard of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
Alexander Comfort had been charged by Plymouth Township police with pushing a social worker down on his bed and sexually assaulting her when she went to his home to offer counseling after his wife’s death.
Prosecutors Monday said the woman was no longer interested in pursuing the matter.
Comfort, 67, served as a member of the Russian Secret Police from 1939 to 1942. He allegedly attacked the woman after showing her pictures of him posing with Stalin and Nikita S. Khrushchev.
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