By job he was an oceanog­ra­pher, by heart he was a dreamer, by nation­al­ity he was a cit­i­zen of the planet Earth  —  in short, he was an extra­or­di­nary guy. Yet his per­sonal file in the USSR was stamped as “not wor­thy of an exit visa” so he was not allowed to leave the coun­try, even if […]

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One of the main criti­sisms of the Soviet Union now, from an every day per­spec­tive, was the huge deficit of every­thing. The planned econ­omy failed to sup­ply a con­stant flow of goods nec­es­sary for the well being of peo­ple. It was not the mat­ter of inca­pac­ity  —  no, the means cer­tainly allowed to build space shut­tles or […]

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1953 was the last year of long and ter­ri­fy­ing gov­ern­ing of Stalin. In Jan­u­ary the huge coun­try although accus­tomed to repres­sions shud­dered from the new hor­ror  –   this time the enemies-saboteurs were Krem­lin doc­tors of a Jew­ish ori­gin. The com­menced per­se­cu­tion also applied to ordi­nary doc­tors.  Soviet peo­ple who believed to the polit­i­cally edited sto­ries broadcast […]

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Just like John Lennon or Elton John, in 1970s David Bowie was an iconic fig­ure of the West­ern music scene. Nick­named Chameleon of Pop for his flam­boy­ant out­fits, pale make up and eccen­tric tunes, David Bowie made a train tour of Rus­sia, all the way from Vladi­vos­tok to Moscow, eigh­teen days in a sleeper.  Back […]

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