I can't imagine what the CCCP had to be like. I've read about it quite a bit but I seriously doubt that does it justice. Were you still there for glasnost and perestroika?
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I can't imagine what the CCCP had to be like. I've read about it quite a bit but I seriously doubt that does it justice. Were you still there for glasnost and perestroika?
I've read some stuff by Red Army veterans of the Great Patriotic War expressing similar sentiments, along with their displeasure with the new regime. One of my Russian professors at the university was a translator in Moscow during that time period, he had plenty of stories (and photos of himself with Gorbachev) but his perspective was quite a bit different from the one you had I imagine.
It seems the chekists are still running things in Russia, some things don't appear to change much...