"On an early cold dark morning on November 18, 1975, we arrived at the Leningrad Pulkovo airport... On pink exit visas, we were allowed into the neutral zone, where the Soviet Union ended. Behind, behind the barrier, stood friends, relatives... For some reason I remembered a tour in Volgograd, a giant monument to the Motherland made of tense reinforced concrete, her punishing sword, her mouth opened in an angry cry. We were no longer her children... "The autobiography of the famous BBC radio host Seva Novgorodtsev, without exaggeration, can be called an encyclopedia of Soviet life in the 1960s-1970s. Talking about himself, the author draws a bright, truthful and ironic picture of the morals and life of the last empire.