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Due to my “secret” job I couldn’t join them. When my bosses learned about my daughter’s departure, they lowered the secrecy grade of my whole laboratory, and I had a lot of trouble. They couldn’t simply dismiss me because I had the secret seal, which I could give back only after dismissal. I was treated badly, but I wouldn’t quit the job. I knew that if I did, I wouldn’t be able to get another. I only had only three years left to retirement. As a “blockade child,” I had the right to retire two years early, that is, when I was 53. In the end, they even had to promote me as a valuable executive. Having worked for 25 years at that enterprise, I retired in 1993.
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1990
Interview
Irina Khokhlova