The clubs I used to attend as a child, for poetry, theatre, singing, maths, natural science, music or chess, had all come to an abrupt end in December 1990. In school, the only subjects to be taken seriously were the hard sciences: physics, chemistry, maths. For the humanities, either new classes were introduced, such as when Market Economy replaced Dialectical Materialism, and we had no textbooks at all, or, as with the history and geography material, they still described our country as ‘the lighthouse of anti-imperialist struggles around the world’.
