People were working and getting a normal salary. Their job and their work were not connected. Well, they were working, they were getting their money, they didn’t care about what would happen to the alarm clock.

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I don՛t remember anyone complaining about the cold and dark in our house, to be honest. Those were good years for me. I also wrote about them. Those were years of victory for me.

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But when people were shouting Karabakh, in my opinion, they were not just shouting Karabakh. I mean, what happened next. Half of Yerevan poured into the streets. Karabakh itself symbolized all that we lost.

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When I was already a student and could express very harsh thoughts towards the political leadership, Brezhnev and co, my mother even once said: “if you say one more word I’ll call Militia to take you away.”

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For the rest you were a “class enemy”, for them the bad guy was the one with long hair, and they would call names

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Then she’d open the suitcase and would say “we have such jeans, this plastic bag of Marlboro for 5 Rubles,” a bag that in America was used to sell a block of [cigarettes], say 10 boxes, for free

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I had first heard the name of “Nagorno Karabakh” from that danoschik, an informer, a student from the Department of Oriental Studies, who specifically came to obtain information from me

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We had decided to take the letters of the Armenian Alphabet to the demonstration, that it would become the symbol of an attack on the language

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It was the month of Brezhnev’s death, it was like a ritual sacrifice, when the leader died, they started to arrest dissidents

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That antagonism was due to the fact that there was a smell of free world from there, and here everything was gray, limited and formal

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