After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.

Walter Ciszek

Polish-American Jesuit priest and missionary in the Soviet Union (1904–1984)

Walter Joseph Ciszek, S.J. was a Polish-American Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who clandestinely conducted missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963.