Tag #156058 - Interview #94776 (Grigoriy Stelmakh)

I remember how my surrounding reacted to Stalin’s death. Even then I found this overwhelming love of all people to him artificial. We were at school when we heard about it. Our class was in the gym. Semyon Faingoltz, a pupil with excellent marks and our Komsomol leader, stepped ahead from the line and said an ardent speech: ‘Stalin died, but the agents of the world imperialism are not to rejoice. Our country shall not surrender to them’. He was shedding tears when speaking. My family also cried at home worrying about what it will be like without him.