Lee Harvey Oswald served in the Marines, where his nickname was “Osvaldovich.”

After reading a pamphlet about the impending death of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who had been found guilty of espionage for Russia, Lee Harvey Oswald developed an early interest in socialism. Oswald noted in his diary, "I was hunting for a key to my environment, and suddenly I discovered communist literature. I had to search for my books in the back of libraries' dingy shelves.

Oswald joined the Marines despite his socialist leanings, and in 1957 he was posted to Atsugi, Japan. He picked up the moniker "Osvaldovich" there. If you complained about "Oh, we've got to go on a march this morning" or "We've got to do this morning," scrub barracks or whatever we had to do, he would — he would say that that was the capitalist form of government forcing us to do these things, as his fellow Marine Owen Dejanovich explained. Karl Marx's system of governance would lessen that.