distinction was always equal or did it begin where more people were convinced and over time it just became the signal for power? In other words, the form of propaganda and did people's conviction in the story deteriorate over the course of the USSR's history so much so that by the time of the collapse in the 1990s, there was a sense that like again to the title of your book, nothing is true and everything is possible. So I think we can look, we can go all the way back to the start and look at sort of peaks and crests in this. If we're talking about the period that I'm kind of bay concerned with, which is the Cold War period and post-war period, there was probably a moment in the 1960s where there was a real hope for socialism with a human face. There was a certain amount of optimism. There was real economic progress and there was a certain amount of liberalization and a certain amount of reformers, especially in the culture sections, which might make you think that it was possible. By (29/57)
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