Chernobyl happened, and suddenly you got this new feeling, we weren’t used to it, that everyone has his separate life. Until then no one needed this life. But now you had to think: what are you eating, what are you feeding your kids? What’s dangerous, what isn’t? Should you move to another place, or should you stay? Everyone had to make her own decisions. And we were used to living—how? As an entire village, as a collective—a factory, a kolkhoz. We were Soviet people, we were collectivized.
