141:'s department of external affairs, citing the Citizenship Act of 1935. His first wife was arrested and imprisoned in 1938, so Breslin shared the care of their children with her parents. He was then arrested in December 1940, accused of being a foreign agent. He was interrogated 60 times while in custody, and while no proof of espionage was found, he did admit of anti-Soviet statements and beliefs under interrogation. In September 1941 he was sentenced to 8 years detention for "counter-revolutionary agitation". He was imprisoned in Moscow's
120:). They had a daughter and a son. Around 1929 or 1930, Breslin was expelled from the International Lenin School for "ideological divergence" for his rejection of Marxist materialism. By this time he was fluent in Russian, and was employed by the school as a translator. He also worked on the English language newspaper,
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the same year. She was an Irish translator working in Moscow. She returned to
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American socialist movements. Breslin was the founder and leader of the Party's youth section, the Young Communist League of Ireland, writing articles and editing the youth section's column in the
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Breslin Kelly, became a Dublin tour guide. The half-siblings were reunited in 1993 after a long search aided by
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