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ing rumors which have time and again circulated
about conditions in Russian camps are greatly
exaggerated, as far as I can tell. It would be desirable
for the Russian leaders to give observers from the
International Committee of the Red Cross or from
some other neutral international organizations, the
opportunity to see for themselves what conditions
are really like. For my part, I am convinced that
the opinion I have expressed is true — but at the
same time I want to emphasize that this is only in
regard to prison camps, and not to concentration
camps in which civilians are held in so-called slave
labor.
My conversations with Mme. Kollontay continued.
Every few months I visited her and inquired if an
answer from Moscow had arrived. At the same time
I contacted the Swedish Minister in Moscow and
asked him to investigate the matter. In the meantime,
another plan was evolved: we should try to get in
touch. with the provisional Polish government in
Lublin, in order to find out in which regions in
Poland Swedish relief work could be carried out after
the war. The only way to get to Lublin during the
prevailing conditions of war, however, was to travel
via Moscow, and therefore I was even more anxious
for the Russian project.
During one of the many discussions, it was brought
to my attention that there might be a way to improve
chances for my receiving the Russian visa which I
wanted so badly. As is known, a fairly large number
of Baltic people had succeeded in getting into Sweden
during the war, This obviously irritated the Russian
government very much. She wanted these people to
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