Tag #154253 - Interview #94325 (Stepan Neuman)

When perestroika [40] began in the USSR, I was happy about it. There are no everlasting regimes, there are to be changes. When freedom of speech and religion was allowed, when the ‘iron curtain’ [41], separating the USSR from the rest of the world for 70 years fell, when it became possible to communicate with people living beyond the USSR – this gave hopes for the best.