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But he also remembered the Soviet Union's "morally superior" attitude to the Aids epidemic – their belief that it "served the Americans right" and their determination to protect the motherland from infection. Barsky stalled a bit more and then hatched a plan. "I wrote this letter, in secret writing, that I wouldn't come back because I had contracted AIDS, and the only way for me to get treatment would be in the United States. I also told the Russians in the same letter that I would not defect, I would not give up any secrets. I would just disappear and try to get healthy.
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