Sarah Paine

No.

Well, maybe the end of the Soviet Union, but there was such optimism of thinking, we're finally going to be a full-up democratic country.

It's going to be wonderful.

with no sense of the work schedules that go into a capitalist economy, that to create the wealth in this country, a lot of people are working far more than 40 hours a week, right?

And particularly as they're getting started, working enormous hours.

And that was not something that was in most people's mind.

I mean, sure,

The kids who became the ballerinas in the Bolshoi are working long hours to do that.

But as an economy as a whole, they didn't understand the source of wealth and had any inkling of all the things that are missing, not least of which is no one's got the right education.

Great, you got Marx memorized.

Oh, it fell apart.

I don't know because I wasn't living there.

I was thinking that there would be impending problems as a.

I don't know, chicken little American.

The sky is falling.

The sky is falling, right?

Americans always think disaster is coming.

I sort of fit in that crowd.

But I think there was a lot of optimism and exuberance thinking we have the freedom to really understand our history and what's happening.

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