I spent most of my life under socialism. I remember how much we idealized man, I too used to hold human beings in high regard. In Dushanbe, I worked at the Academy of Sciences. I was an art historian. I thought that books…that what men had written about themselves was the truth…But actually, it’s only a tiny sliver of the truth. I haven’t been an idealist for a long time now, I know too much.
