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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “To maintain relations with him after he has become a refugee is a crime.”

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To maintain relations with him after he has become a refugee is a crime.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin discusses the severe consequences of maintaining relationships with political refugees in Tsarist Russia.

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