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trade union in Poland. It was a moving personal experience, as his father had been a political prisoner there before fleeing the country for France where
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in the mid-80's and as Deputy foreign editor from 1989 to 1992, helping the times to organize their reporting on the collapse of
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in 1959. He was married to
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Kaufman travelled widely as a newspaper correspondent, plying stories from presidents, kings, and not infrequently dictators. He once interviewed the
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on May 2, 2011. Several other obituaries he worked on in advance appeared in the paper in the following years, with one (for
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in the 1980s, much of his later career would center on Russia and
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Kaufman wrote seven books and thousands of articles that covered wars, revolutions, politics, and the 1960s in
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refugees Adam and
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George Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire
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