I’m just a twit, freedom of speech would have been enough because, as it soon turned out, at heart, I’m a Soviet girl. Everything Soviet went deeper in us than we’d ever imagined. All I really wanted was for them to let me read Dovlatov and Viktor Nekrasov*7 and listen to Galich. That would have been enough. I didn’t even dream of going to Paris and strolling through Montmartre…Or seeing Gaudí’s Sagrada Família…Just let us read and talk. Read!
