Gorbachev, the rallies…Everybody was out in the streets. Celebrating. You can write about whatever you want, shout whatever you want wherever you want. Free-dom! Free-dom! No matter what awaited us, the past was finally over. We were waiting for something new to emerge…Impatience was in the air…then we’d get afraid again. For a long time, I was scared of turning on the radio in the morning: What if suddenly it was all over? Like they’d abruptly canceled the whole program? For a long time, I couldn’t believe it was real. I thought they were going to come in the middle of the night and take
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