Yury Oreshin The Citizen of the World.
Long Russian winter. Cold, that chills to the marrow. Moscow night. The Kremlin's star is blazing with ruby-red. And the wind of changes is blowing straight at my eyes. I am seven years old standing with my father in Red Square, one last time before we leave for China.
The spirit of the USSR has left me only two memories: the portrait of "Grandfather Lenin" (on the wall in my kindergarten), and the TV broadcast of "Comrade Gorbachev", who was saying something really serious about "Perestroika".
And so I left that "enigmatical" country without even getting to know it, to discover another one, as different from the USSR as the moon is from the sun.
The day I arrived in China I proclaim to be the beginning of my conscious life. Here I began to discover the world as my family moved into a diplomatic compound, where we joined the families of diplomats from all over the world.
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