My Perestroika

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01/19/2021 An impressive film! The director's serendipitous discovery of old film footage of the main subjects in the film made the story whole. Viewing their lives as children growing up in the Soviet system, then going through the collapse of everything they knew and finally how their lives have played out since then was quite illustrative. particularly interesting were the parallels in my own life. I was in the army in those early years and saw the Berlin all go up, the fright of nuclear war in America, then in 1991 the Wall came down -a factor I never expected in my lifetime. I traveled and worked in Russia several times in the following years and personally saw the crumbling of their democratic dreams and their economy and the turn to the authoritarianism of Putin and his cronies. See more 02/10/2013 good, but I wouldn't rate it as highly as Metacritic did. See more 10/09/2012 Parts of it are eerily familiar See more 09/09/2012 Moderately interesting documentary about Russia over the past 30 years. See more 08/04/2012 An astonishingly profound portrait of what adults, all from the same class as children, think of the transition from Soviet Russia to capitalism and how it has effected their lives. A point of view your middle school Social Studies teacher missed. See more 05/21/2012 What makes this documentary enjoyable that it portrays ordinary people and how they felt about the fall of a political system that reigned for almost a century. Facts and dates are always boring but when a person from the street talks about those times than it calls our attention. It's philosophical and thought-provoking. See more Read all reviews

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