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[They summoned me to the NKVD.
"Your mother has sent you an invitation. You can go to Romania." "She knows I am not going to Romania! I sent her there last August.] "But I would recommend you to snatch at a chance while the door is open for you!" "This is the door to the backyard. And it is the backyard of a hostile nation that hates my homeland. This door is not for me!" "But what door is for you?" "The door I could enter without lowering my head or curving my back! The one I have every right for because of honest work!" [Later (in almost 20 years), I found out that nobody had ever sent me an invitation!] |
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