Claim: Judah Waten, who wrote novels and short stories, has travelled to Wormwood Scrubs Prison and Soviet Union, a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia which existed from 1922 to 1991.
Evidence: Judah Leon Waten AM (29 July 1911 – 29 July 1985) was an Australian novelist who was at one time seen as the voice of Australian migrant writing. Between 1931 and 1933, he visited Europe, became engaged in left-wing political activities in England, and spent three months in Wormwood Scrubs Prison. He wrote novels, short stories and a history of the Great Depression in Australia. He travelled to the Soviet Union several times, once with Manning Clark. The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.