[17:22-18:15] The Enduring Gaze: Yury Shchekochikhin's Transformation and Influence

And who did he become? Well, by then he had started getting involved in politics, he already... He had changed. His eyes, his eyes remained the same, those very eyes. Like, this can't be. That is, I understand who it is, but it can't be. So, naturally, I... I read literature. Naturally, I understood that he was involved in perestroika. And we had an amazing show then called "Vzglyad" (View), that was Gorbachev's. So he was also one of those perestroika figures. We all watched "Vzglyad"; I would rush from business trips to some television in a dormitory. I would run away, I was making mosaics directly on the walls. I ran like a madwoman, and you couldn't even squeeze past to get to that TV, well, at least not to see, but to listen. That is, everyone sat there. This is to the point of how people respond to hope.