Grey is the Color of Hope

"Natasha is from Leningrad. She is serving a sentence for producing a samizdat journal, Maria, which was devoted to feminist issues. The problems raised in this journal, such as the double workload of Soviet women--eight hours at work followed by five to six hours queuing for food, the horrors of communal kitchens, doing the entire family wash in a hand basin--were to appear in the official Soviet press also, but much later, in 1986. In 1982, when Natasha was arrested, talking about such matters was classed as 'anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.'"

~~ from Grey is the Color of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya