Adasinskaia, Galina Antonovna
Galina Antonovna gave three interviews to Tat'iana Kosinova between May 2004 and May 2005. Born into a family of veteran revolutionaries, Galina recalls the special atmosphere of her childhood home in Dom Politkatorzhanov [House of Political Prisoners], the communal housing block in Leningrad reserved for socialists who had been imprisoned as 'politicals' before 1917. She gives details of the spartan lifestyle of her family, stressing how they went without material possessions to buy books and art. Galina also talks about the dilemmas she confronted after the arrest of her father, when she chose to join the Komsomol, and then when she applied for a job as a schoolteacher. She recounts the background to her own arrest, which was the result of her holding on to the diaries and letters from a friend that were critical of the Soviet regime, and describes in detail her interrogation by the NKVD. Galina also talks about the special quality of friendships which she formed in the Viatlag labour camps with fellow female prisoners.

Interview 1 [May-04]
Interview 2 [March-05]
Interview 3 [May-05]