Tag #135263 - Interview #78133 (Faina Khorunzhenko)

I finished school in 1938. But as they said, we were unlucky, because in 1937, the Stalinist repression started, and many teachers of our school were arrested. [The interviewee is referring to the Great Terror.] [5] We could never get the whole picture and believed everything we were told. All the teachers of the basic subjects at our school had been arrested.