The damned sovok. The Soviet regime refused to surrender. The “Red” parliament refused to be subordinate to the president. That’s how I saw it back then…My wife and I had helped the cleaning woman in our building—she was from somewhere around Tver—with money on more than one occasion, and we gave her all of our furniture after renovating our apartment. But on the morning when it all started, she noticed my Yeltsin pin, and instead of saying, “Good morning!” she told me, her voice full of malice, “Your time is running out, you bourgeois pig,” and turned away. I didn’t see that coming. Where had
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