With the help of Mozhayev’s walks and insights I begin to understand how radically every new regime rebuilds the past. Lenin and Trotsky ripping up the memory of the tsars, Stalin ripping up the memory of Trotsky, Khrushchev of Stalin, Brezhnev of Khrushchev; perestroika gutting the whole Communist century and every time the heroes turn to villains, saviours are rewritten
