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    "label": "38,000,000 escaped -- 10,000,000 died",
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    "title": "38,000,000 escaped -- 10,000,000 died",
    "description": "Shows \"the western half of the Soviet Union ... placed (in reverse) upon the map of the United States.\"",
    "date": "[\"[ca. 1940–1949]\"]",
    "year": 1940,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:0r96fm228",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_014725",
    "creators": [
        "Russian War Relief, Inc.",
        "Means, E."
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "World War, 1939-1945--Maps",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief--Soviet Union--Maps",
        "Russians--Nazi persecution--Maps",
        "United States--Maps",
        "Soviet Union--Maps",
        "Russian War Relief, Inc."
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        "United States"
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    "notes": [
        "Shows \"the western half of the Soviet Union ... placed (in reverse) upon the map of the United States.\"",
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "\"E. Means\"--Below legend.",
        "\"Russian War Relief, Inc., 11 E. 35th St., New York City, presents this map to help Americans to visualize the almost inconceivable extent of the need for American aid to the people of the Soviet Union. From the vast invaded area of the USSR, here shown superimposed on a map of the United States ...\""
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