# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-kravchenko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:08:29.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-kravchenko"
name: "Victor Kravchenko"
slug: "victor-kravchenko"
description: "Viktor Andriyovych Kravchenko was a Ukrainian-born Soviet defector, known for writing the best-selling book I Chose Freedom, published in 1946, about the realities of life in the Soviet Union."
tagline: "Defector Soviet diplomat (1905-1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Victor_Kravchenko_Crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-10-11"
deathDate: "1966-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.85
  momentum:             15
  historical:           17.20440266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Viktor Kravčenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktor_Andrejewitsch_Krawtschenko_(Diplomat)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADktor_Kravchenko"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Kravchenko_(transfuge)"
    title: "Viktor Kravchenko (transfuge)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kravchenko"
    title: "Victor Kravchenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Viktor Kravtsjenko (avhopper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wiktor Krawczenko (uciekinier)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Victor Kravchenko"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "維克托·安德烈耶維奇·克拉夫琴科"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Kravchenko"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Viktor_Andrijovy%C4%8D_Krav%C4%8Denko"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Kravchenko"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q962114"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump