Tag #134612 - Interview #77952 (Ruth Greif)

Correspondence was a problem during communism: I couldn't write to my brother in Israel when I was a student in Cluj. I didn't even try. When the staff at the post office saw a stamp for Israel, or the USA, or any other country, they would open it and call the Securitate. It was that bad during Stalinism. After Stalin died [in 1953] and Khrushchev [22] came to power, it got better, that is you could write, but not be sure if the letters would reach their destination! It happened to me as well.