Biography
John Zabrian was a laborer born in 1894 in the Minsk region of the Russian Empire, in present-day Belarus. He immigrated to the United States in 1913, moved to Canada later that year, and returned to the United States in 1918. He joined the Socialist Party and then Detroit’s Russian Branch No. 3 of the Communist Party. Federal authorities deported him to Russia on March 18, 1921 because of his political affiliation.
