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    "ocrText": "[AUG 48]\nTRANSLATION\nThe Consul General of the U.S.S.R. in New York\nEverything that had to happen has happened\nI am not an enemy.\nI love and am sincerely devoted to my fatherland and my people.\nI came here to work honestly and to win esteem and even greater\nconfidence than I had before. I loved the children infinitely and was\ncheerful and enthusiastic in my work\nMy lessons were my nourishment\nand the support which sustained me in my low spirits. Here under the\nconditions of a capitalistic system I wanted again to prove my convictions,\nand my devotion and love for our fatherland. My hatred for the traitors\n3.\nTRSNAR\nto the fatherland weighed heavily upon me\nTATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDE\nAnd now it seems as if I myself am in the situation of a traitor.\n:\nSERVICE\"\nBut no, I have not betrayed my people, I have not become a traitor,\nI have not committed any crime\nAnd never, never in my life shall I go\nagainst the dictatorship of the working class. My father is a worker. My\nblood is his blood, but then what is this all about?\nThe reaction of the already undermined organism has set in. You\nnever considered it necessary to speak frankly with me. I was being laughed\nat and told \"why do you go around everywhere complaining? Everybody is\nlaughing at you 1 \" You did not want to tell me the truth and at the same\ntime they continued to close in on me. Being completely innocent, I had\nall sorts of thoughts\nWhat is the reason for smearing me? After all,\nI have not said anything, I have not stolen, and I have not killed anybody\nEven the children's love for me and my mad love for the children have not\nbeen spared. All the children have been incited against me. They threw\nnails, books, screwdrivers, and pen holders, and all kinds of objects at me.\nThe thing that was dearest to me, the thing I lived by, was killed"
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