Joel Shubin (died March 24, 1942) was a

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, journalist, and an alleged

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representative to the American Communist Party. At one time, he served as the

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Deputy Minister of Agriculture.

Biography

Born

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ish, Shubin edited the

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-based ''Peasant Gazette'' in the 1930s. A widower with a teenage daughter, he married the

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journalist

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without ceremony in 1931, and they remained married for the rest of his life. At the time, Strong edited the English-language version of another Soviet newspaper, ''

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''. While Shubin often accompanied Strong during her trips back to the United States, the two were often separated due to work commitments. According to

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's account, Strong later said: "perhaps we married because we were both so doggone lonely...but we were very happy." Shubin died of a lung disease under mysterious circumstances on March 24, 1942. Strong, who was working in

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at the time, didn't learn of her husband's death until that August. It was reported in 1949 that an unnamed Soviet official suspected that Shubin was "liquidated."

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*See Judith Nies. ''Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition'', University of California Press, 2002, p. 166 *Claimed in the following non-peer reviewed publication: Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel. ''The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors'', Washington, DC, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2000, p. 71

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