![]() Lyuba, her husband, Boris Meyerson, and neighbors Olga Durikova, Andrei Yevgrafov and Ruslan Stupin, now in their early forties, grew up in the Brezhnev era, known as the "Period of Stagnation." But stagnation had a positive side. The film is also an affecting portrait of the paths five young people took when their world turned upside down. Woven from nearly 200 hours of footage of former Russian schoolmates filmed from 2005 to 2008, hundreds of reels of home movies from the 1970s and 1980s and dozens of Soviet propaganda films of the era, My Perestroika is a nuanced account of a tumultuous time - the last years of the Soviet system - as experienced by a generation coming of age just as its country broke apart. "I was completely satisfied with my beautiful Soviet reality." "I simply was like everyone else," says Lyuba Meyerson, one of the women profiled in the film. for the fact that we live in the Country of Happy Childhood!" to remind us that we are gazing into the looking-glass world of the last years of the Soviet Union.Īnd nobody knows more about that world - and its sudden, spectacular crumbling - than the generation of children pictured in the opening sequences of My Perestroika. It takes one child's resoundingly enthusiastic salute, thanking "Dear Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Even the 1977 parade of children through Red Square in uniforms that are evocative of American scouting outfits does not appear alien. The 1970s-era home movies featuring well-scrubbed, rosy-cheeked kids playing in the snow or at the beach would not be out of place in an American family. Credit: Courtesy of Red Square Productions. Young Soviet Pioneers on Red Square during a May Day demonstration, Moscow, 1977.
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