Zack then renounced Marxism completely , and founded a new group called the " One Big Union Club . " In 1936 , Zack made an appeal to the US State Department in an attempt to persuade the USSR to allow his wife and child out of the country . His effort proved unsuccessful . In 1937 , his wife ran afoul of the secret police during the Great Terror . Apparently , she was arrested as a relative of an enemy of the people : she served 18 years in Gulag labor camps , while their son grew up in a special home . The arrest of his wife turned Zack into an opponent of Joseph Stalin and the USSR
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