A crowd was waiting for us outside of the building. “Put the communists on trial! Send them off to Siberia!” “If only we had a machine gun to shoot through all these windows!” I turned around and saw two tipsy men standing behind me—they were the ones who’d been talking about a machine gun…I said, “Just remember that I’ll shoot back.” A policeman stood by pretending that he didn’t hear anything. I knew that policeman personally.
