– "openness" – had been Gorbachev’s promise two years ago. Now, in the spring of '88, the air smells of thawing permafrost and printer ink from underground samizdat magazines. The teens in this film don't want to storm the Winter Palace. They want jeans. They want rock music. They want to know why their history textbooks have chapters being rewritten as they study them . Scene 3: The School Auditorium
For the first time, they aren't whispering. Russian.Teens.3.Glasnost.Teens
"What values? The ones where we pretend there’s no bread in Leningrad? Or the ones where my father drinks himself to death because the factory quota is a lie?" – "openness" – had been Gorbachev’s promise two
Moscow, 1988. Arbat Street, 11:47 PM.
"Leave?" Dmitri scoffs. "And go where? Everything we know is broken. But it's our broken." They want jeans