We won…Gorbachev returned from Foros*19 to an entirely different country. People were walking around the city smiling at one another. We won! That feeling stayed with me for a long time…I walked around, going over everything in my mind, scenes flashing in front of my eyes…How someone had shouted, “Tanks! The tanks are coming!” and everyone took one another’s hands and made a human chain. It had been two or three in the morning. The man next to me took out a packet of cookies: “Anyone want a cookie?” and everyone took one. For some reason, we were all laughing. We wanted cookies—we wanted to
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