Nazar also worked in the local youth wing of the Uzbekistan Communist Party but was accused of belonging to a nationalist group and was temporarily expelled though after a visit to Moscow to appeal against the decision, he and his friends managed to regain their membership.

Nazar who was aware of the Allies’ agreement at Yalta to repatriate all former Red Army soldiers and citizens in Germany to the Soviet Union regarded this as a key opportunity to save his fellow countrymen from certain execution.

[citation needed] However, by April 1945 the American army was advancing into northern Italy and German occupation rule had more or less collapsed, Ruzi discovered that his mission was impossible and decided to return to Germany.

When Germany accepted defeat in May 1945, he was in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim where, thanks to two German families, he was sheltered and avoided being found and arrested by Allied soldiers and sent to certain death before a Soviet firing squad.

[citation needed] Until 1951 Nazar had a precarious existence, struggling to earn a living while working with Ukrainian and Central Asian nationalists with the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations in Munich,[4] a joint platform for non-Russian peoples seeking independence, set up by his friends Stepan Bandera and Yaroslav Stetsko.

In September 1955 he attended the Cairo Non-Aligned Conference in a similar capacity and the Seventh World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna in July and August 1959, during which he met privately with Turkey's most famous 20th-century poet, the exiled Communist Nâzım Hikmet, who he later recalled advised him to ‘stay away from politics and politicians.’ His work on such occasions seems to have been a combination of promoting awareness of the colonial situation of the non-Russian peoples of the Soviet Union and trying to identify Soviet infiltrators and agents.

Nazar's biographer, Enver Altaylı says that Ruzi intervened via the US ambassador, to ensure that Türkeş and his colleagues were not executed, but this claim is disputed by some Turkish relatives of the purged men.

[citation needed] Frequently accused by Turkish leftists of being ultra-right wing in his work for the CIA, Nazar claimed that he had worked to prevent further military coups being staged by left-wing army officers in 1971 and had helped Turkey's intelligence service, MIT (Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı) to modernize itself and become operationally autonomous after years of dependency on the U.S.A.[citation needed] A notable moment in Nazar's years in Ankara came in 1965 when his mother and sister broadcast an appeal to him over Tashkent Radio.

[citation needed] After leaving Turkey after eleven years in Ankara in 1971, Nazar worked in Washington and Bonn for the rest of his career, cooperating closely with Zbigniew Brzezinski on publications contrasting the Western capitalist system with Soviet Communism.

[citation needed] In 1979 Nazar entered Iran under cover presenting himself as a German-Afghan carpet seller in order get informed on the situation of the hostages in the US embassy and assess the possibilities of an eventual rescue.

[6] He took part on the ground in the successful CIA clandestine operation 'Argo' (which in 2013 became the subject of a film though Nazar's presence is not mentioned) to rescue six American diplomatic personnel who had been stranded outside the embassy at the time of its occupation.

[citation needed] Nazar has two children, a daughter, Sylvia, a professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University, best known as the author of the John Forbes Nash Jr. biographical book A Beautiful Mind, and a son, Erkin.