Tag #148696 - Interview #95439 (Maria Zabozlaeva)

I have mixed feelings about perestroika [28] and the downfall of the Soviet Union.  I like it that we got an opportunity to know more about the history and read books. I was greatly impressed by Solzhenitsyn [29], Mandelshtam [30], Akhmatova [31] and Tsvetayeva.[32] When I heard their life stories I thought that we knew so little about life. We only knew what we were allowed to know. The reality was different and hard. It’s hard to imagine all those hardships and deaths. On the other hand, after the downfall of the USSR it became difficult to communicate with friends and relatives and many contacts have been lost.