[1] After moving to the Soviet Union and renouncing his Irish citizenship he became disenchanted with the USSR, was convicted of "counter-revolutionary agitation", and died in a labor camp in Tatarstan Padraic Breslin was born in London on 14 June 1907.
He was inspired to join the Communist Party of Ireland in 1922 by his uncles, who had been involved in the American socialist movements.
[1][2] He was one of eight young members sent to study at the International Lenin School, Moscow by the IWL in 1928, with James Larkin Jnr and Sean Murray.
Around 1929 or 1930, Breslin was expelled from the International Lenin School for "ideological divergence" for his rejection of Marxist materialism.
[1][2] Becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Stalinist regime, Breslin voiced this to his friends, family and even casual acquaintances.
Because his wife was under pressure from her superiors about her marriage to a foreign national who presented a possible security risk, Breslin became a USSR citizen in 1936.
The half-siblings were reunited in 1993 after a long search aided by The Irish Times Moscow correspondent, Seamus Martin.
[1] A documentary about Breslin and the reunification of his children, Amongst Wolves - Stalin's Irish Victim, was aired on RTÉ on 26 February 2001.