BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 03:36:00
This is the period of brezhnev government. it is ideologically very strict and, well, with me, of course, who needs a musician? i was completely unknown outside of leningrad because i was still studying in the conservatory. so i don't think i represented any value to the establishment. however, my father was an important scientist who worked for many years in the sciences that were classified. and the danger was always that it often happened that if one member of the family would be dealing with classified information, the others wouldn't be allowed to leave. there was that danger and that's w...