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whom they put in a psychiatric hospital or threatened to . I noticed
that, as a rule, they do it to people who they feel are naive, or
unstable, or have very strong feelings, or are easily upset. And they
probably felt that in my case they had less chance of success. But,
also, from the very beginning of my arrest there was a very strong
campaign on my behalf, and they probably were calculating that the
entire world would know what was happening to me. After I was
released, I found out that the Soviet government was receiving hun–
dreds and hundreds of letters every day. I never saw those letters.
They burned them. But those letters saved my life. This should re–
mind us how important it is to demand the freedom of all political
prisoners in the Soviet Union.
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