When Georgi Ermolenko, a 19-year-oId Russian musical genius attending an international music conference in Perth, Western Australia, sought in August to remain in the West, he touched off one of the most contemptible and shameful episodes in Australian political history.
The Australian Labor government, which a few days before had recognized Soviet military hegemony over the Baltic republics, handed him back, working with the KGB and using an Air Force Orion to smuggle him to Singapore, where he was put on a Soviet aircraft.
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