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Condemned as a Spy in the USSR

Flora Leipman, a British Jew, spent decades in a Soviet labour camp on false spying charges. She managed to leave the USSR in 1984 and spoke to the BBC in 1987 about her experiences in the camp. Dina Newman tells her story using BBC archives. Photo: Flora Leipman in a BBC documentary, 1987

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