Tag #116671 - Interview #78774 (Fania Brantsovskaya)

The denouncement of the cult of Stalin in 1956, at the Twentieth Party Congress [44] was an inspiring moment and gave us hope again. I remember our friend Kovalski, a tailor, staying a whole night with us arguing and trying to convince us that we had to leave this country. We stayed and so did he. We've never considered emigration. We didn't consider it during the mass emigration in the late 1970s. However, we never cared about possible troubles following our acquaintance with those friends who decided to move to other countries. Our friends spent their last days here with us and we accompanied them to the railway station. Vilnius is closer to Europe than Moscow and we didn't have such incidents as expulsion from the Party for this kind of anti-Soviet conduct.