birth_date: 1898-07-01 00:00:00
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name: Eugene Lyons
about: American Anticommunist. In his younger years Lyons was a member of the Young People’s Socialist League the youth section of the Socialist Party USA. He became critical of the Soviet Union after working there as a correspondent of United Press International. During the early 1940s and the Second Red Scare which followed World War II, Lyons was a frequent contributor to the popular press on anti-Communist themes, targeting liberals if Lyons deemed them inadequate in their denunciations of the Soviet regime.Lyons also wrote a biography of President Herbert Hoover.
death_date: 1985-01-07 00:00:00