Are there any stories and/or reports about DotP/AES state defectors fleeing to [insert capitalist country here], only to change their mind after a day (or so/less depending on the story) being in [insert capitalist country here] and wanting to go back to the DotP/AES state they came from? Mainly just out of curiosity.
Colonel Vitaly Yurchenko, of the KGB. Defected to the US and revealed a massive amount of secrets related to KGB operations in the states, he gave this in exchange for a “new better life in the West”. In 3 months he became so disgusted by America that he redefected back to the Soviet Union, taking with him a massive cache of documents, files, and credentials that he tricked a young CIA officer into giving him.
On the morning of his escape, he convinced the same young CIA agent from before, that was tasked to stay with him, to take him to a Halloween parade in a city 5 miles from the Soviet embassy in Washington. There he called ahead to the embassy to say that he was coming, without anyone watching him noticing. Then lastly, he took the Agent to a restaurant, gave him the few thousand the CIA had given him, told him “I’m leaving now, I’ll see you soon—goodbye. If I don’t come back, it’s not your fault.” He then got up and walked to the Soviet embassy.
This blew up in the CIA’s face and created a massive scandal for Reagan’s administration, and a good, deeper look into this case can be found here. (It is a western source and biased, but it’s still hilarious at how they try and spin this CIA disaster)
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I’ve seen a bunch of accounts on here of DPRK citizens leaving, realizing ROK is shit, and wanting to go back - but of course the occupying US forces don’t let them go back. Of course those aren’t the “defectors” who get loads of media attention.
A lot of Chinese nationals are going back to PRC as the US and west more broadly is treating them with more and more hostility, and life is better in China.
I’ve also heard firsthand from a few Chinese people who said they moved back to China / are planning on moving back, both online (possibly here once or twice?) and even offline (although IIRC one of them might have been Vietnamese)
