success and then sort of become successful through that process of having created the perception in the minds of other people. That's a very nice parallel. I hadn't thought about that, but that's not a bad parallel. That's not bad. So describe for me and my listeners what it is that we're talking about here, what it is that you describe in your first book through your experience of living and working in Russia. What is the sort of cultural manifestation that we're describing? And then what I would like to do is try to understand its origins, its progression from the end of communist Russia, because interestingly enough to get to ahead of ourselves, I did another episode with my friend Simon Mihailovich, who emigrated to the United States in the 1970s. And he sees the beginning of this unraveling actually in the period of destilization, but then really accelerating with Perestroika and then through into the early 1990s. What is it that you experienced that you write about that we're (17/57)
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