Tag #153447 - Interview #78479 (Irina Lidskaya)

When I was at this school I became a pioneer, but I have no memories of it.  I almost had problems with Komsomol There were many things that I didn’t quite understand, but I, as I hesitated becoming a member. By  the beginning of the tenth grade, all the other students had become Komsomol members. I was called to the director on a daily basis. They kept asking me over and over when I would join. My answer was always the same -- that I was not quite ready for it. We had long discussions, and they told me that it would be a problem for me to enter the Institute if I were not a Komsomol member. In the end I went to the district Komsomol Committee and obtained my Komsomol membership card.