 6) had been established in Moscow for Austrian and German orphans of fascism; Leonhard lived there from September 1936 to August 1939, when it was closed a week after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, following months of pressure after a number of residents were arrested in the so-called Hitler Youth Conspiracy.Afterwards Leonhard enrolled as a student at the Moscow Institute for Foreign Languages.1936 was the beginning of "The Great Purge", a period of arbitrary arrests and trials in the Soviet Union.