모스크바 - 1956년

Moscow, 1956

In September 1956, arrived in Moscow Jacques Dupaquier - French scientist, historian, demographer, a member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and with Marxist and member of the French Communist Party.

"Such freedom in 1956, the Soviet Union was not even during the Gorbachev" - recalled in an interview with Jacques Dyupake - "For our delegation had no police control, I broke away from the group and spend hours wandering the streets alone.

I knew some Russian, and could ask for directions. We were in the Soviet Union in interesting times, Soviet society was

going through a moral catastrophe after Khrushchev's speech at the Twentieth Congress.

Nobody did not know what is possible and what is not, I did everything I wanted, it was especially exciting.

I shot drunk, lying on the main streets of Moscow, and the police, contrary to my expectations, did not try to stop or take

a camera.
 
"When asked about the fact that most surprised him in the Soviet capital, Dyupake replied: "I was amazed that in 1956 Moscow by more than half a wooden city, and beyond the main streets reigned poverty."