Tag #151666 - Interview #78225 (Iosif Gurevich)

In the middle of the 1980s perestroika [25], initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev [26], began in the USSR. I was enthusiastic about it and believed in it. The Iron Curtain [27], separating the Soviet Union from the rest of the world fell, and that was a good sign. I believed that things would keep improving. Unfortunately, life's not always as we want it to be. The good beginning didn't continue. Still, the main achievement of perestroika was glasnost [openness]. We lived under the Soviet regime for 70 years, a whole epoch in history. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the Communist Party of the USSR ceased to exist, and I automatically stopped being its member.