Newspaper article on Faina Minkova's father Yuzik Minkov

This is an article on my father, Yuzik Minkov, published in a newspaper in Chernovtsy in 1977. This issue was dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the USSR. The article is entitled ?He was raised by the Party?. It talks about my father's combat life, his childhood when he was an orphan, his heroic deeds during the Great Patriotic War and his dedication to the Communist Party and communist ideas and struggle against the enemies of communism. The article ends with the following words: ?Yuzik Minkov was awarded a badge for 50 years of membership in the CPSU. This day is especially memorable for a contemporary of the Great October Revolution and a communist. The wind of revolution merged with the life of Yuzik who has paced along the glorious and thorny path of the revolution with honor.? My father was a political officer and an NKVD employee. He worked at the KGB office until 1952, when the campaign against cosmopolitans began. Many Jews, including my father, were fired. Of course, he knew why he had been dismissed, and this caused him a lot of suffering. Nevertheless, he remained a devoted communist. He mourned for Stalin in 1953 and didn't believe a word about the denunciation of his cult. We weren't allowed to say a disapproving word about the Soviet regime, or, God forbid, tell a political anecdote. For my father everything about the Party was sacred and certainly not subject to discussion or criticism. He explained that what happened to him was a mere mistake and that it was impossible to avoid such mistakes. My father couldn't get a job for a long time. This was the period of blatant anti-Semitism. The situation was very hard for our family. My mother used to sell our belongings to get food for the family. In the end my father got a job at the human resource department of the woodwork factory. Later he got another job at the Electronmach plant. My father retired in the late 1970s. He died in 1984.