[07:22-07:58] A Missed Opportunity: The Sorbonne Incident

Because they said that one of the donations for this international competition was that you could study abroad. And indeed, I was invited to the Sorbonne to the Faculty of Arts. But the rector's daughter went instead, because the rector also turned out to be some kind of UNESCO member for culture. And some relative of his, so to speak, was sent. And they told me: "Well, how can we send her, she's not 18, she needs to be with her parents and somehow generally." We can't. She didn't, she also, I didn't know. I found this out many years later. Well, it's kind of funny. And this is how the Soviet Union operated, right? So on the one hand, on the scales there's one thing, and on the other hand, there's another.