 While living there, she married the communist activist, Ladislav Švarc and they had two sons together.They moved to Banská Bystrica (now in Slovakia) when he became the regional secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia there in 1921.Often harassed for their views by the government, they moved to Prague in 1925 and then to the Soviet Union the following year where she studied at the State Institute of Journalism in Moscow.