In l960 a city girls club was created of which I was the leader, and in l96l I was the region's delegate to the first congress of women of Karelia. I represented our city at the Helsinki Youth Festival. In l963 they transferred me to work in the regional committee of the Komsomol. I welcomed glasnost and perestroika, but sadly it is hard for me to believe that Russia can create a government based on human rights and a legal order. True, there are more rights for the people who have money, while the rest of us keep knocking at the door and can't get through to anyone.
Women are the majority of the population.
Women's organizations appeared because women felt themselves defenseless. These days many women are abandoned, as it were, so we veterans of the women's movement have joined forces. We meet monthly and our purpose is to help one another in word and deed, in particular, families with many children, invalids, and a lot of other people. We group women by interests, we look into how and where they could earn something, and mainly we socialize. We won't let the women's movement in our city die out.