Perestroika Page #3

And everybody knew if you were

lucky and could leave,

you'd become "an emigrant" to

those left behind.

Officially this word sounded

like "An enemy of Russia".

You would never be able to see your

birthplace and your friends again.

But recently, under

"Perestroika" (Restructuring)

my friends were permitted again

to consider me their friend.

Hello.

It's for you. You've been

traced, already.

The following day consisted of

three dinners and four suppers.

Everybody wanted to see the man

returned from beyond.

From where no one they knew had

ever returned before.

They wanted to see but strangely

enough not to hear.

They were no longer interested

in the outside world.

Too many things were happening

in their own.

They just elected the first

president of Russia Boris Yeltsin

and said good-bye to the father

of "Perestroika"

the president of disintegrated

USSR Mikhail Gorbachev.

Did you vote for Yeltsin?

Yes...

How could you?! Just wait till

you've made him a dictator,

he'll show you.

You have a better alternative?

You fear there may be a civil

war. Well, it's already here.

Gorbachev was the greatest

leader of our time!

Look at what he's done in

Eastern Europe!

Gorbachev is the same as the

rest, only weaker!

He couldn't revive the economy, he

couldn't give freedom to the republics!

Gorbachev is a man of compromise,

a politician without principle.

He cannot be trusted. I don't know

why Americans are so fond of him!

Americans consider compromise a

virtue.

Anyway imagine if Gorbachev went

ahead with his reforms without

compromise, and we'd have chaos.

It seems to me we are on the

verge of a collapse.

Perestroika is dead!

Perestroika has just begun.

Perestroika never had a chance.

No one knows how to work

anymore.

Lazy, spoiled slaves, all of

them!

Master.

All day I waited for your call -

it never came.

Tried calling - No answer.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed,

Mohammed will come to the mountain.

Give me a hug. Ahh.

What's this?

Couldn't we just unplug it?

No, you're not in America.

Telephones do not unplug here.

That would create too much

difficulty for those listening in.

So, disciple?

Do you think you've won our

argument?

Do you think the time has come

for the rats to return from

"unexplored space"?

They certainly think so and they

get so exited.

A human person has broken an

"iron curtain" twice.

Fourth and back! This is an

event.

And, it is morning, and it is

officially your birthday.

Congratulations.

Gross was not your average

Soviet physicist.

He had come from America.

He had participated in the

creation of the nuclear bomb.

America dropped this bomb on the

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