Word: oksana
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...last consulates were closed in 1948 when a Soviet consul general kidnaped Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina after her escape from Russia's New York consulate, where she was a schoolteacher. She later escaped again by leaping from the consulate's third floor, became a U.S. citizen before her death...
...Died. Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina, 63, Russian schoolteacher in the Soviet consulate in Manhattan, who defected in 1948 by jumping from a third-floor window, became a U.S. citizen in 1957 and wrote Leap to Freedom, the story of her life under Russian repression and of the disappearance of her husband in the 1937 purges; of heart disease; in Miami, where she had lived incognita the past year in a hotel for the elderly. Her leap followed a previous escape to the New York farm of the anti-Communist Tolstoy Foundation, from which she was kidnaped by the then Soviet consul...