grew up in a deeply Soviet time. Totally Soviet. Born in the USSR. But the new Russia…I don’t understand it yet. I can’t say what’s worse, what we have today or the history of the Communist Party. My mind still functions according to the Soviet scheme, in the Soviet mold; after all, I spent half of my life under socialism. All of that is ingrained in me. You couldn’t beat it out. And I don’t think that I’d want to. Life used to be bad, now it’s outright frightening.
