Tag #142080 - Interview #78796 (Friedrich Falevich)

I was negative about perestroika [29], initiated by Gorbachev [30], from the very start. Perhaps, our life should have been changed in some aspects, but it should have been done in a very different manner from how Gorbachev did it. Everything was camouflaged with beautiful words while actually, this generated lack of power. 'I do what I want.' It was allowed to speak out whatever one felt like, and write about such things in newspapers that one wouldn't want to read them.