These people are innocent – what can their wives and children be guilty of? It’s you who should repent, you who should be begging forgiveness. And you want to prove my inferiority, to destroy my good name – simply because I’m related to these innocent victims? All I’m guilty of is failing to help them. At the same time, another, quite opposite train of thought was running through Viktor’s mind . . . I didn’t keep in touch with them, I never corresponded with enemies of the Party, I never received letters from camps, I never gave them material help, I met them only infrequently and by chance .
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