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How Did Vladimir Petrov Influence The Soviet Union

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Petrov went to Australia in 1951, under the influence of the Soviet Union. Their job was to watch over Soviet Citizens and to prevent them from defecting against the Union and their country and also to try and find out background information about the Australian Political Parties, but instead of watching Soviet Citizens and preventing them from defecting against the Soviet Union, ironically, Vladimir himself defected the Union because the ASIO started receiving information about Vladimir Petrov being a spy for the Union. DONE

Vladimir Petrov was afraid to go back to Russia after working in Canberra as a diplomat, at that time, Stalin was in power in Russia and he was assassinated, this scared Petrov and made him not want to return to Russia in fear of what happened to Stalin might happen to him as well. He also did not see what future Russia had to offer him if he returned to Russia after being caught as a spy by the …show more content…

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union had thought that the Australian Government figured out that Petrov was a spy so they send two escorts from Moscow to retrieve Mrs. Evdokia Petrov from Australia and have her placed under house-arrest. This gave time for the Union to figure out what was going on with Vladimir whether he was caught or whether he was thinking about defecting against the Union. Sooner or later, they figured out that Vladimir was going to defect against the Union so the two escorts moved in to retrieve Evdokia from Australia. (Presumably to have her executed or killed once she returned to Russia).

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