The Gorbachev years…Freedom and coupons. Ration cards, coupons for everything: from bread to grain to socks. We’d stand in line for five or six hours at a time…But you’re standing there with a book that you hadn’t been able to buy before. You’d know that in the evening, they were going to play a previously forbidden movie on TV that had been kept on the shelf for the past ten years. It was so cool! Or all day long, you’d think about how at ten, Vzglyad was going to come on TV…Its hosts, Alexander Lyubimov and Vladislav Listiev, became national heroes. We were learning the truth…that there
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Gorbachev years: ration cards and freedom of speech
