![]() ![]() how one man continued to drink vodka with the colleague who had made his life hell.why people chose suicide at the fall of the Soviet Union and.why victims of the Soviet gulags continued to support Communism.In this summary of Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, you’ll find out These are the voices usually left out of the history books. From interviews conducted between 19, we glean fascinating insights into ordinary people’s views and lives. Here we’ll get to know the feelings of the people who lived through the transition from the Soviet Union to Russia and the other states that formed when the Soviet era died. ![]() In a short period in the early 1990s, that entire structure vanished. They were born into a society governed by a Communist regime that upheld state ideology as though it were religious doctrine and suppressed other views. This is exactly what happened to the people of the Soviet Union. How would you feel? How would you remember that old world? How would you adapt to the new one? Imagine if everything you believed was true was thrown into question and the world as you knew it turned upside down overnight. ![]()
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