Tag #140646 - Interview #78529 (J.D.)

At the end of 1949, I was no longer a member of anything, and I insisted that they not put me in some state company on the basis of my party membership. If I would have joined the Communist Party then, or worked more actively for them, then I would have gotten the directorship of a textile shop downtown. They asked me if I was a member of the party or not. I said I’m not a party member, and I won’t be. That was my party line. I was raised in the democratic spirit, in a poor proli [proletariat] family.