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Such rhetoric drew considerable fire from conservatives, and Counts was the target of many professional anticommunists, who charged him and the social reconstructionists with subversion. Counts, however, was no communist. In 1936 he made a third tour of the Soviet Union, in time to witness Stalin's purges firsthand. His friend Albert Petrovich Pinkevich, a Russian educator, was sent to a forced-labor camp. When Counts was elected president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in 1939, he began a campaign to purge the union of Communist Party influence, expelling the Communist-led New York Local #5 and other Communist-influenced locals in 1941. In the 1940s and early 1950s he wrote several books concerned with maintaining civil liberties and academic freedom while at the same time opposing communism and the Soviet Union.
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