A list of their names alone would fill a whole page. And, of course, these were ladies of high society from religious families. After Soviet power was established, the mass media began to circulate the image of woman as a builder of the new society, in which she would have the exact same rights as man. Women were praised chairwomen of collective farms, directors of factories, athletes, scientists, members of government. Many women dreamed of becoming pilots and captains.
Women strove to be the heroines they saw on television and read about in books.
Among these heroines there was no place for the woman as wife or mother. If such women did appear, then critics charged the authors with portraying a backward, patriarchal home life and accused them of being bourgeois. Moving to the present, I would be remiss if I claimed that in Christian families there was ever, or is now, much attention paid to the upbringing of girls. In the best of cases, they become acquainted with the righteous life of biblical women in Sunday school. Even our families which converted to God comparatively early are not always models worthy of imitation.