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I was member of the Communist Party. I had to join when I was appointed
chief of the laboratory - otherwise, I would not have been appointed, since
it was the peak of anti-Semitism in this country, and it was hard for Jews
to find jobs. If one was a member of the ruling Communist Party and had a
good reputation, only then he could count on making a career; such was the
policy in the USSR. But in 1991, when there was the putsch against
Gorbachev in Moscow, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
Ukraine did not respond, I went to the secretary of the Committee. To
protest the wait-and-see attitude of our organization, I told him I was
leaving the Party.
chief of the laboratory - otherwise, I would not have been appointed, since
it was the peak of anti-Semitism in this country, and it was hard for Jews
to find jobs. If one was a member of the ruling Communist Party and had a
good reputation, only then he could count on making a career; such was the
policy in the USSR. But in 1991, when there was the putsch against
Gorbachev in Moscow, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
Ukraine did not respond, I went to the secretary of the Committee. To
protest the wait-and-see attitude of our organization, I told him I was
leaving the Party.
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Ukraine
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matvey loshak
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