er, Rawicz was fluent in
             Russian, and would often, as a young teenager, cross the border to visit
             nearby Russian towns with his family. Unfortunately for Slavomir, his
             return to Pinsk coincided with the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland.
             The Soviet secret service was extremely suspicious of Polish citizens
             with, either Russian ties, or fluency in Russian. The fact that Rawicz
             could not only speak fluent Russian, had traveled to Russia, but had served
             in the Polish army as well, convinced Russian intelligence that Rawicz was,
             On November 1939, while attending a "welcome home" party hosted by his
             Russian mother, he was arrested by the soviet secret police (NKWD).
             In, perhaps, one of the most difficult parts of his ordeal, Rawicz was
             imprisoned in Minsk for his initial interrogation. When he refused to
             voluntarily sign a confession (that his interrogators w
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