Tag #142669 - Interview #95027 (Yuri Fiedelgolts)

I was imbued with optimism when Gorbachev [48] started a new course of the party, perestroika [49]. There were a lot of demonstrations in Moscow. Everybody could speak his mind from the tribune without feeling timid! I was crying from happiness that things were getting recovered. Now I feel that all was built on sand and did not meet expectations. It hurts and I am thinking “was my imprisonment and suffering futile? Are those things I am doing and writing now, futile?.