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Dennis was born Regina
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after being indicted for his labor activities, and Dennis and Tim joined him the next year. After this, he began representation work for the international
Communist movement in Moscow, traveling to different countries and helping with the Communist parties struggle. Then, in 1933, Dennis was
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Eugene joined the national leadership of the CPUSA, and she did research and worked on a CP magazine. Their second son, Eugene Jr., was born in 1942. In 1948, Eugene and ten other CPUSA leaders were indicted under the
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In 1935, the couple was ordered to return to the United States, but Tim, who only spoke
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Dennis was disabled by a severe stroke in 1989 and died four years later at the Jewish Home for the Aged in San
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