I had hundreds of declarations of resignation from the Party piled on my desk…Soon enough, they were all rounded up and taken out to the trash. To rot at the dump. [She looks for something in the folders on the table.] I saved a few…One day, a museum will ask me for them. They’ll come looking…[She begins reading from them.] “I was a devoted Komsomol member…I joined the Party with a sincere heart. Today, I wish to say that the Party no longer has any power over me…” “The times have led me into confusion…I used to believe in the Great October Revolution. After reading Solzhenitsyn, I realized
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