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Victor Andreevich Kravchenko, (Template:Lang-ru) (11 October 1905 Yekaterinoslav - 25 February 1966) was a Soviet defector who wrote up his experiences of life in the Soviet Union and as a Soviet official, especially in his 1946 book I Chose Freedom.

Born into a family of revolutionaries, Kravchenko became an engineer and worked in the Don basin region. He joined the Communist Party in 1929.

During the Second World War he was a Red Army captain before being posted to the Soviet Trade Mission in Washington DC. In 1943 he abandoned his post and asked for political asylum from the United States authorities.

His death from bullet wounds in his apartment remains unclarified.

• 1905 births
• 1966 deaths
• Defectors