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...Smith exhibits surprising ignorance when he says: ". . . It is very doubtful whether the Russians are capable of conversion, even if we could reach their ears." Oksana Kasenkina, former Soviet schoolteacher, jumped to freedom from the third floor window of the Soviet consulate in New York, Lieut. Peter Pirogov flew his bomber from Soviet Ukraine to the U.S. zone in Germany to seek freedom ... In Mr. Smith's own England lives former Red Air Force Colonel Grigory Tokaev, who also escaped . . . These are only a few of many thousands who have been converted. Half a million of Russian displaced persons...
...haven for Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina became a law of the land. President Truman signed the bill waiving immigration requirements, and paving the way for citizenship for the onetime Soviet schoolteacher who made her three-story leap to freedom from a Soviet consulate window in Manhattan almost three years...
...second anniversary of her third-story leap to freedom, onetime Soviet Schoolteacher Oksana Kasenkina announced that she was writing a novel, to be called The Red Devil. "Of course, the Red Devil is Stalin. Who else...
Even Russian Communists have sticky little bourgeois problems, it appeared from the autobiography of Oksana Kasenkina, the schoolteacher who escaped last year from the U.S.S.R.'s New York consulate by jumping out of a third-floor window. In her Leap to Freedom, Mrs. Kasenkina tells how the wife of Soviet Diplomat Andrei Gromyko appealed for her help in vetoing a romance between Gromyko's adolescent son Anatoli and pretty young Klava, who, after all, was only the daughter of a lowly embassy chauffeur...
...Soviet woman, despite her sturdiness and resistance to hunger, cold, and suffering, cannot thrive on the misery that is her lot," said Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, who jumped from a third floor window last summer rather than go back to the U.S.S.R. Russian women, she said, "age fast and die prematurely...