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because the
Army and the G.P.U. (Secret Police) are too
strong. The winter is going to be one of great suffering there
and there is starvation. The government is
the most brutal in the world. The peasants hate
the Communists. This year thousands and
thousands of the best men in Russia have been sent
to Siberia and the prison island of Solovki. People are now speaking openly
against the Government.