Tag #138426 - Interview #78230 (Anna Hyndrakova)

I joined the [Communist] Party, but first of all I was in the Czechoslovak Youth Association [19]. On the one hand, all my friends had joined the party, on the other, the Russians had liberated us and I thought that it was the only force that could prevent what had happened ever being repeated. And they wanted me to join. No one else wanted me. No one would miss me if I didn't return to the orphanage in the evening. In the Youth League, I was in a committee; it was a fine group and they arranged their meetings according to when I could make it.