Fees for study in the upper forms of secondary schools, in specialised secondary institutions and in the higher educational establishments of the USSR were abolished only from 1 September 1956

Fees for study in the upper forms of secondary schools, in specialised secondary institutions and in the higher educational establishments of the USSR were abolished only from 1 September 1956. My grandmother always used to tell how hard it was for her parents to pay for her schooling, and the fact that not everyone could afford a school education for their children did not fit at all into the picture of universal free social benefits in the land of the Soviets. And here is the actual decree confirming it