greetings, this is a podcast chronicling the end of times, and i, evgeny dodolev, will tell you about, about bribes with food. the fact is that now many people of my generation, and older people, and younger ones too, very romanticize the soviet era, everyone has forgotten about the total shortage. and often people are dissatisfied when they remember these rather humiliating moments, when it was impossible to buy some basic things, including sweets, this shortage in no way neutralizes or reduces the importance of the social state, which was the soviet union, with its free medicine, with free education, with stability, and i also think that it’s important to talk about what i talk about is always my personal experience, i i’m just talking about what i remember, that’s what i noticed, that everyone remembers the same things differently, when i was working on memoirs... about perestroika journalism, i was faced with the fact that the same people remember different things in different ways, that is, the same people, i mean, the same age, the same social group, uh, colleagues who worked to