Had perestroika never happened, my life would have been different. In any case we are not queuing and looking abjectly at salespeople. But I don’t know whether this is thanks to perestroika.

The only thing I don’t like about Gorbachev is that he destroyed the USSR. I have many friends and relatives in former Soviet republics. Otherwise, he has always been well-groomed and did not act as a clown, unlike others.