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was on my way to Siberia. The prison warden told me I would | I shot if 1 attempted to leave the train. Every railway station in Russia was watched by the NEKVD or the secret police. I had no sport or papers of any kind jexcept my police orders to Sibe beta. 1 I had a few _kopeks in A my

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: money. i ; ¢ eyewitness stories by a man When 1 was ent fo the ©l60| Who escaped from behind the Now I weighed 80 pounds. fron curtain after spending 1 ‘was pale and sick from pellagra. seven years In Soviet concenHad no shoes. I had wrapped tration camps. Yesterday he rey feet in pleces of rope. lated how he was ordered batk ! My trousers had big holes in to Siberia as a “contract work- : oh at the knees and my jacket er” even after he had completed ad a great hole in the shoulder. hs sentence, a oday oo tells = s escape from e Soviet SO i Jon AAD Cio. ! ning some underwear. the police, listening always for a 3. If ever there was anyone who|shouted command. kid like an escaped prisoner, I walked like a cat. I watched as I. {and listened and fled at the r ty that if. I got off the slightest sound of danger. It was n and a policeman ever/the most terrible four days of Stopped me and asked for my my life. I was doomed. The least] I had no food, no place to could. expect was another four sleep. My clothes were in rags in concentration camp, and it was. very on. t was far more likely WaMi ‘wepopy 7 left the Czech emthat 1 would be shot, 'passy I had written a letter to i on. 8 ‘an old friend in Prague. I had % I. DIDN'T care. I knew I would not seen or heard from him for pver survive the cold and hun- ¢ight years, So far as he knew in Siberia again. I figured I|1 was dead. I did not know if he pothing to lose. When the {could help me. Lrain pulled Into the MOSCOW Sta: Sr ——

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jog me. the station was a big ormation office for tourists.|'® went inside and asked thé lady? the telephone number of the Pzechoslovakian embassy. She” one look at me and ordered e out, She wouldn't give mei number, She said if I didn’t" out she'd call the police. I went down into the subway. 3 didn't know where to go but I wanted to get away from the railstation where the secret): Police were watching everyone. . 88 5 * § GOT oft the subway at the #Theater of the Bolsheviks. I was

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