Tag #156031 - Interview #94776 (Grigoriy Stelmakh)

My mother was very pretty, but she didn’t go out with boys. She didn’t support revolutionary ideas either. My mother said that when the revolution began, there were many idle young men and most of them were Jews since it was a Jewish town. They didn’t want to work or study. They ran around the town yelling ‘Death to capitalism’ teasing their Jewish fellow comrades who were working or studying. My mother remembered that when she was 15-16 years old, and came to dance at the club a Komsomol guy yelled to her: ‘Khalfina, get out of the club!’ and chased her out whistling and hooting, because she was a hostile element since her family was considered wealthy.