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Jean Turner, 1929 - 2023
CHRISTINE LINDEY reflects on the life and socialist values of her friend and comrade Jean Turner
(L to R) Soviet War Memorial by sculptor Sergei Shcherbakov, Jean Turner
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I FIRST met Jean Turner in 2001 when I joined the Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Union Studies (SCRSS) and we became firm friends until she sadly passed on February 23 2023 aged 93.
Jean was a truly phenomenal woman. She was born in 1929 and lived in a tied cottage with a mud floor in the grounds of a grand Berkshire house where her father was a dairyman.
In the days before free state post-elementary school education she won a scholarship to grammar school where she was lucky to have a communist teacher who encouraged her to challenge the perceived limitations of her working-class background.
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