The strongest group is in the Crimea where we have about 3,000, most of whom have been won just in the last few months. A significant proportion of our members are activists, between 500 and 700 in the Crimea. You have to take into account that the Crimea has a unique tradition and that the Communist Party is very strong there. In Crimea, for example, the majority are apprentices with a further 10-15 per cent university students and about the same number of young workers and school students. Raising living standards for young people is particularly important.
Incomes here are miserable.
A loaf of bread costs H2 and a monthly bus pass is H9. We have calculated that you need about H75 a month just to survive, and that's without power and heating. You don't have to be a mathematician to see that no student could live on that. So, most students have to work alongside their studies - many young women work as prostitutes. The most important demands for us, therefore, are higher wages and grants, payment of back pay and the creation of more jobs.