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Shortly after we got married, in autumn 1957, the military unit where my husband served was given the alarm and they moved to Hungary [because of the Soviet invasion of Hungary] [19]. He didn’t stay there long and returned to Uzhhorod. The Hungarian events that became a concern for many active residents of Subcarpathia didn’t interest us. We grew up in the Soviet Union and were taught to blindly believe official explanations of events. We believed that if the Party and Government decided it was right to take troops to Hungary, then this was necessary. Thus, when in 1968 the USSR brought its troops to [invade] Czechoslovakia [20] and Isaac also went there, I began to have doubts that it was right. My husband didn’t take part in military action. He was in a supporting unit deployed at some distance from the area of combat actions. However, I was terrified to hear what he told me about beating and arrests of peaceful civilians. I understood that the USSR conducted tough policy with regards to socialist countries, but I thought that it might be some political necessity in this. In general, I took no interest in politics. I had other problems to think about.
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Larisa Radomyselskaya