Tag #144899 - Interview #83342 (Valentina Fidelman)

I became independent too early, and as my parents expected a boy, I played not as much with girls, as with boys, and Daddy encouraged that. We played right in the street, and they all obeyed me. We fought street against street. We had rich neighbors, and now I can’t believe that I could climb over roofs and steal apples from them and distribute them among poor kids. There were a lot of poor Ossetians, Russians, Jews, all sorts of nationalities. We had no concept of nationality; I didn’t know what I was. There was no anti-Semitism in the Caucasus, we were true internationalists, and there were both Armenians and Georgians in our courtyard.