We little children [come] with a great plea to the Great Father Stalin [and] from a burning heart ask [him] to return to us our fathers who are working in Ostashkov. We were sent from western Belorussia to Siberia and we were not allowed to take anything with us. It's hard for us to live now, all children have mothers who are not well and can't work. No one thinks of us, how we are living and there's no work—they won't give [us] any. For this [reason] we little children are dying of hunger and we humbly ask Father Stalin not to forget about us. We will always be good working people in the Soviet Union only it's hard for us to live without our fathers. Goodbye father,