On the radio, they’d said that after the war was over, we would all be happy, and Khrushchev, I remember, promised…He said that communism would soon be upon us. Gorbachev swore it, too, and he spoke so beautifully…it had sounded so good. Now Yeltsin’s making the same promises. He even threatened to lie down on the train tracks…I waited and waited for the good life to come. When I was little, I waited for it…and then when I got a little older…Now I’m old. To make a long story short, everyone lied and things only ever got worse. Wait and see, wait and suffer. Wait and see…
