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I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.