The Gallery: Transcript

99.29/27

22nd January 1998

Interview with Emanuel Litvinoff

"Well I was very sweet on a girl named Hannah Jacobs. A very sweet and innocent relationship. Now our branch secretary was also very sweet on her, and he was explaining how Communism was a cure, it would bring equality to everybody. I was being smart as usual and I was also feeling rather aggressive towards him because he was sweet on the same girl as me so I said 'tell me how it will solve the problem of a corn on your foot?' So he sort of stretched his neck in a curious way, rather like a fighting bird I would say, and he said 'under Communism everybody would have shoes that fit properly, so you wouldn't get corns on your feet' and it was a devastatingly brilliant reply and very shortly after that I was expelled for Trotskyism. I didn't know what it was actually but I discovered soon afterwards that people were being shot for it."