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Neither before nor after Stalin's death did I have hopes to be released from exile. The amnesty was declared after Stalin's death, but it referred to neither political prisoners at Gulag nor exiled. Only criminals were pardoned. Our future seemed gloomy. Only after the Twentieth Party Congress [36], when Khrushchev's speech [37] on divulgement of Stalin's crimes appeared in the press [37] there was a glimpse of hope. I was liberated only owing to the afore-mentioned resolution of the NKVD.
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Russia
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simon rapoport