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I ran around all the time to find a book, I knew exactly that I had to find Akhmatova [21], or Yesenin [22], and you had to read them ‘under the table,’ otherwise it was dangerous. I’ve heard about Kirov’s [23] plot and what was going on in 1937. I never felt any delight because of Stalin or Lenin, not at all. Probably it happened because they raised me as a sensitive, intellectual girl, without any idols. Also none of my relatives were Communists; none of them joined the [Communist] Party.
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Galina Shmuilovna Levina