I was totally Soviet—it’s shameful to love money, you have to love a dream. [He lights a cigarette and falls silent.] It’s too bad…You forget a lot…You forget because it all goes by too fast. Like a kaleidoscope. First, I fell in love with Gorbachev, then I was disillusioned. I went to demonstrations and shouted alongside everyone else, “Yeltsin—Yes! Gorbachev—No!” I screamed, “Down with Article 6!” I even put up flyers. We talked and read and read and talked. What did we want? Our parents wanted to say and read whatever they wanted. They dreamt of humane socialism…with a human face. And young
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