At the end of August 2019, an unusual guest appeared in the village of Bashkir Kushnarenkovo. I walked around the village, for some reason I carefully examined the brick ruins of the Tofornin landowners' estate, which was destroyed "in the amazing 90s", and then went to the museum of the local agricultural college, where I spent a lot of time leafing through forms from the 1930s with the half-erased names of library visitors and the names of the books they read. In these records of almost a century of recordings, he searched for one name - Carmen Pindo. But I didn't find it. There were many others, also Spaniards, but he never came across his mother's name. Although he was still sure she had definitely read some of those books. This story began in 1937 in Bilbao, Spain. Amidst the roar of the fascist bombings, a local socialist worker simply decides to send his three daughters to the Soviet Union. The eldest of them, Carmen, is only thirteen years old. Against the background of the civil war in Spain and under the influence of propaganda, life in the Soviet Union seems like paradise to them. But paradise did not last long - on June 22, 1941, war entered their lives again. In the fall, the evacuation of Moscow begins, and the Executive Committee of the Comintern moves from Moscow to Ufa, where the editorial offices of the radio stations broadcasting to the occupied countries and territories of the Soviet Union begin their work. And in the village of Kushnrenkovo, 60 verst from Opa, in the former estate of the Tofornins, the school of the United Party of the Comintern was opened. Germans, Austrians, Poles, Czechs, French, Italians studied here - but the largest group was the Spanish group, about thirty to forty people. The first people of the world communist movement came from Opa to give lectures to the cadets: Georgi Dimitrov, Palmiro Togliatti, Wilhelm Pike, Maurice Torrez, and Dolores Ibruri also came. One local resident, many years later, recalled the rally in the school yard: "I was 13 years old, and I understood politics, but I still remember how brightly and passionately she spoke. ".

At the end of August 2019, an unusual guest appeared in the village of Bashkir Kushnarenkovo. I walked around the village, for some reason I carefully examined the brick ruins of the Tofornin landowners' estate, which was destroyed "in the amazing 90s", and then went to the museum of the local agricultural college, where I spent a lot of time leafing through forms from the 1930s with the half-erased names of library visitors and the names of the books they read. In these records of almost a century of recordings, he searched for one name - Carmen Pindo. But I didn't find it. There were many others, also Spaniards, but he never came across his mother's name. Although he was still sure she had definitely read some of those books. This story began in 1937 in Bilbao, Spain. Amidst the roar of the fascist bombings, a local socialist worker simply decides to send his three daughters to the Soviet Union. The eldest of them, Carmen, is only thirteen years old. Against the background of the civil war in Spain and under the influence of propaganda, life in the Soviet Union seems like paradise to them. But paradise did not last long - on June 22, 1941, war entered their lives again. In the fall, the evacuation of Moscow begins, and the Executive Committee of the Comintern moves from Moscow to Ufa, where the editorial offices of the radio stations broadcasting to the occupied countries and territories of the Soviet Union begin their work. And in the village of Kushnrenkovo, 60 verst from Opa, in the former estate of the Tofornins, the school of the United Party of the Comintern was opened. Germans, Austrians, Poles, Czechs, French, Italians studied here - but the largest group was the Spanish group, about thirty to forty people. The first people of the world communist movement came from Opa to give lectures to the cadets: Georgi Dimitrov, Palmiro Togliatti, Wilhelm Pike, Maurice Torrez, and Dolores Ibruri also came. One local resident, many years later, recalled the rally in the school yard: "I was 13 years old, and I understood politics, but I still remember how brightly and passionately she spoke. ".