When I was already a student and could express very harsh thoughts towards the political leadership, Brezhnev and co, my mother even once said: “if you say one more word I’ll call Militia to take you away.”

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For the rest you were a “class enemy”, for them the bad guy was the one with long hair, and they would call names

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Then she’d open the suitcase and would say “we have such jeans, this plastic bag of Marlboro for 5 Rubles,” a bag that in America was used to sell a block of [cigarettes], say 10 boxes, for free

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I had first heard the name of “Nagorno Karabakh” from that danoschik, an informer, a student from the Department of Oriental Studies, who specifically came to obtain information from me

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We had decided to take the letters of the Armenian Alphabet to the demonstration, that it would become the symbol of an attack on the language

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It was the month of Brezhnev’s death, it was like a ritual sacrifice, when the leader died, they started to arrest dissidents

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That antagonism was due to the fact that there was a smell of free world from there, and here everything was gray, limited and formal

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The number of Russian schools was constantly growing, and bribes and nepotism were utilized to get accepted to Russian schools

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In 1977, the new USSR Constitution was adopted, and the constitutions of the 15 republics had to be harmonized with it, and in those constitutions, in the new drafts, the line stating that the state language of Armenia was Armenian, was missing

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Nacistická pomsta za pomoc partyzánům dopadla i na matčina bratrance

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