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November 28, 2000
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A Russian commission is convinced that Raoul Wallenberg was shot in a Soviet prison after World War II and plans to ask prosecutors to rehabilitate him as a victim of Stalinist repression, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency. It has long been suspected that the Soviets killed Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the war.

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