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So, I gather from your book...

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That normal, common words like...

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Fuck, cock, pussy, masturbate, orgasm.

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These words don't exist, Soviets say only:

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"It."

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Many factors lead to the fact that...

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In the Soviet Union, normal sex...

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As in the West doesn't exist.

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This is tied to the totalitarian system.

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Which impacts all areas of human life.

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If you want to understand the Soviet Union...

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The best way to do so...

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Is to understand Soviet sexuality.

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"We will destroy this world of
violence to the foundation."

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My name is Dr. Michael Stern.

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I was conceived the night of the October Revolution...

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Which unleashed repressed desires
for political, social and sexual freedom.

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People were drunk on possibility
and launched a series of rash...

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Radical, utopian reforms.

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The Bolshevik criminal code was
the best in the whole Europe.

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They reformed everything.

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The priority for women workers now is to...

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Cast off the burden of raising their children.

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Help the Communist Party...

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To build a new shining life!

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The Bolsheviks claimed sex
should be treated as casually...

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As drinking a glass of water.

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Artists explored sexual themes.

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And museums displayed erotic
photographs for the first time.

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The intelligentsia threw off their clothes...

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along with centuries of repression and shame.

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Naked calisthenics was popular
as people rejoiced in their newfound skin.

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A nude beach appeared just steps from the Kremlin.

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Students hand published pornographic magazines.

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Authorities drew up plans for public sex booths...

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And orgies and free love leagues proliferated.

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Same-sex relationships were decriminalized.

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They said, "Okay,
no problem, we decriminalize it."

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Why the Bolsheviks did it?

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They decided that they will conquer Europe...

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With these new ideas.

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At that time, everything was communal.

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A girl couldn't refuse sex.

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A man has desires...

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No one asked about the woman's desires.

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He needed sex, he got it. Period.

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Because everything was belonging...

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To "the People."

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So the female genitals...

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Were considered to be private property...

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If a woman said "no."

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There are so many heartbreaking stories of women...

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Who were just broken...

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By this revolutionary experiment of the 20s.

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When the Soviets came...

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They took over and lived well.

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They had everything and we didn't even have bread.

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Lenin's social experiment began to collapse.

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Pervasive sex in filthy conditions
led to widespread sickness.

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Venereal disease was so common
among civilians and the military...

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That the Red Army created an entire syphilitic platoon.

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Meanwhile, Soviet society was breeding
a dangerous generation of homeless orphans.

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The destruction of social and sexual norms, religion...

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And the family led not to utopia,
But to savage brutishness.

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The pendulum of sexual freedom had to swing back.

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If it didn't, it had to be pulled back forcibly.

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Then Stalin appeared.

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A totally different personality.

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Of the worst possible type.

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Stalin was cruel.

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When his daughter Sveta was six years old...

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He said: "Take off this skirt! Put my shirt on her!"

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"The girl's body should be all covered!"

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Stalin was very cruel with his Nadya.

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He made her his lover against her will.

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By the way, I think she wasn't even 16 years old yet.

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He dehumanized her, he crossed her out.

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He even beat her.

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She committed suicide.

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She shot herself.

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I'm convinced 100% that he was sexually sick.

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I think it's connected with his own problems.

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That he became impotent early.

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His aura, his energy...

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It then spread throughout the entire Soviet Union.

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Naturally! Society follows the leader.

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The authorities quickly understood that...

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In sex, a person must be themselves.

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And should feel free.

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But in the totalitarian system...

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Where sex is an enemy of the ideology...

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Everything is done in order to...

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De-eroticize sex.

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"Have you read Marx?"

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"Yes."

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"And how was it?"

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"Very interesting."

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Stalin produced all Soviet cinema...

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Because film builds the person.

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And it coincided with Bolshevik ideology.

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The construction of a new life.

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What qualities should a Communist have?

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Chastity.

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Why chastity?

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The bourgeoisie perverted sex...

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Because of the power of money.

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Now capitalism is gone...

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These feelings regained their purity.

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You really don't get it?

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The idea was to train young men and women...

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For the army.

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All these men and women parading in shorts.

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Exposing their bodies.

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At the same time, they shut down...

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The whole topic of sexuality.

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What an interesting book I have here!

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Everyone will be jealous.

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And here's the most important chapter.

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"Never show intimate relations to anyone anywhere."

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Art depicting nudity was censored throughout the empire.

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The monumental statue, Girl with an Oar,
was destroyed.

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Recently celebrated photographers and artists...

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Were sent to the Gulag as their work
was reclassified as pornography.

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The opera Lady Macbeth was banned for 30 years...

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Because a musical movement reminded Stalin of sex on a
squeaky bed.

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Homosexuality, adultery, abortion,
premarital sex...

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And even masturbation were criminalized.

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And divorce became extremely difficult.

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Soviet women were required to dress modestly,
men to remain monogamous.

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And housewives were warned against preparing spicy meals.

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Which could lead to unwanted sexual arousal.

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Sex education was banned from school.

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And on Stalin's orders kissing was scrubbed from cinema.

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The word sex itself vanished from the encyclopedia.

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Today I took out the encyclopedia and looked up sex.

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It just says "gender."

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We didn't use this word.

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It was considered a swear word.

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We didn't even talk about it among friends.

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We didn't even have words for it.

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I didn't know what sex was.

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There was love, or something like that.

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No need to call for Love...

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It will appear uninvited...

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And then spread joy all around.

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"You will arrive one day..."

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"Tenderly desired..."

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"My truest friend."

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"Happy New Year."

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Everyone's watching, you should be ashamed!

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We were simply ashamed.

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Neither mom nor dad had any conversations with me about it.

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Nothing was taught at school.

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Everything you heard you picked up on the street.

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Everything from the knees to the throat...

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It doesn't exist. Especially the female body.

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There was no sex.

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Sex, Bye, It's Western, it's dirty.

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It's only reproduction, there is no sex,
only reproduction.

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I got married and got my first experience.

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Inexperienced first experience.

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I lived with my husband for several years.

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I never undressed completely in front of him.

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I felt ashamed he might see me.

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Every pleasure a person can feel...

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They tried to minimize as much as possible.

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It was useful for them to make sex a taboo.

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Because then they could use it as a tool.

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My first kiss?

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That was my first kiss, when he kissed me.

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Hrysha, my husband.

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What do you want? I married at 17.

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Who else could I have kissed? Where could I have gone?

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But his kissing was awful.

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Some guys are good at kissing...

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But he licked my whole face.

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I had to run home to wash it was so sticky.

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Because there was no place also where to have sex.

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Because we all were living with our parents.

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So, many guys and girls...
They were getting married at 18, 19...

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Because they just wanted to have sex.

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I wanted to say another word.

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And then they were getting married...

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Just to be able to fuck.

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In our times, if a guy likes a girl,

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If he falls in love with her. He can possess her...

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Only by marrying her! No other way!

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Otherwise he won't have her. Absolutely.

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Such were the rules, that a girl should get married...

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She must be a virgin without fail.

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Everyone was very proud that she was a virgin.

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He's her first. There were even such traditions at weddings...

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The groom's mother would lead the newlyweds to the bedroom.

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She would wait to see how the first intercourse went.

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And if blood dripped on the sheet...

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Then they would parade around this sheet.
He took an honest bride.

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And if not, they would say all sorts of nasty things.

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You're cursed.

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If we knew... that she was
like this, like that...

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This woman was condemned.

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We had a military doctor.

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A surgeon.

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We brought those girls who needed to get married,
who wanted to be virgins again.

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For a certain fee he would sew back
what remained of the hymen.

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And she became a virgin anew.

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During sex...

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Everything was the same. It hurt her.

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Blood flowed. And the man felt tension.

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A thrust, a rip and that's it.

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It's the parents who go.

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They drag their daughter to the doctor.
And ask like this and that.

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And ask him to do such and such.

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For cash they fix it so she is honest again.

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Let the husband try to prove she's impure!

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And afterwards he would bring out the sheet.

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And show everyone the blood stains on the sheet.

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That yes, he took an honest wife.

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In a family, a woman had no right to say "no."

219
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There was no "Sorry, Dear, I have a headache."

220
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That's not heard.

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She's there that's it.

222
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There was no such thing as foreplay.

223
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Here's the woman.

224
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You go.

225
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Many women didn't like it because with no foreplay...

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It's a rather painful act.
It's not always orgasm, but...

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It's superiority.

228
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You as a man enforce your superiority
on a woman.

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Penetrate her forcefully.
You know if you do it with force...

230
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Apply your brutal power like a man...

231
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You know you just take her.

232
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What kind of sex are you talking about...

233
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When five families lived in our apartment?

234
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19 people.

235
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It's called a "communalka."

236
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Where can you have sex?

237
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Russia is a huge country.
The biggest country in the world.

238
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But actually their private space is always tiny.

239
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It's crazy.

240
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Communalkas were very interesting.

241
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It was a ruse they thought up...

242
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To use the huge mansions of the rich...

243
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That were originally 8 room homes.

244
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The communists put one family in each room.

245
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Come on in...

246
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Take a look how we live...

247
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Three families. I have two children.

248
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A neighbor lives here.

249
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She just left.

250
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We don't know how to divide the room.

251
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Where to put her crib.

252
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When I was pregnant with my second child...

253
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I asked for another room. They refused.

254
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They answered:

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"The more the merrier."

256
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It's impossible to live like this. Impossible.

257
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They blame us for everything.
I don't say it's perfectly tidy...

258
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But a dormitory is dormitory.

259
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And a lot of people live here.

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I can't bring someone to visit. I'm just
ashamed that I live in such conditions.

261
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There weren't even doors in these rooms.

262
00:17:51,354 --> 00:17:54,287
It was just an open space.

263
00:17:55,888 --> 00:17:59,888
Up to 30-40 people lived in these places.

264
00:18:00,454 --> 00:18:03,454
And from this group around 10%...

265
00:18:03,655 --> 00:18:08,254
Worked for the KGB, controlling the masses.

266
00:18:09,187 --> 00:18:13,354
A lot of people who told their thoughts in the kitchen...

267
00:18:13,388 --> 00:18:19,054
And the next day they'd be arrested and shot.

268
00:18:20,621 --> 00:18:22,755
Millions of people.

269
00:18:26,755 --> 00:18:29,388
After Stalin's death in 1953...

270
00:18:29,788 --> 00:18:31,888
Nikita Khrushchev became premier...

271
00:18:32,054 --> 00:18:33,655
And started to open society.

272
00:18:34,821 --> 00:18:37,621
One of the most extraordinary signs of this thaw...

273
00:18:37,688 --> 00:18:40,855
Was the World Youth Festival of 1957.

274
00:18:41,354 --> 00:18:45,855
34 thousand delegates from 131 countries...

275
00:18:46,488 --> 00:18:51,888
Came to Moscow with the desire for peace...

276
00:18:52,855 --> 00:18:54,154
And friendship.

277
00:18:54,855 --> 00:18:57,221
Billed as the largest festival in history.

278
00:18:57,788 --> 00:19:01,688
For two full weeks delighted crowds frolicked
across the capital.

279
00:19:01,988 --> 00:19:06,488
It was the first time many Soviets had ever
met a foreigner.

280
00:19:21,354 --> 00:19:26,755
But what was intended as propaganda for
international friendship had unexpected results.

281
00:19:26,888 --> 00:19:31,788
Tipped off by concerned parents...

282
00:19:32,421 --> 00:19:35,855
The authorities assembled nighttime raids
on parks and fields.

283
00:19:36,454 --> 00:19:39,454
What they found was described as an epic
international orgy.

284
00:19:43,221 --> 00:19:44,988
The foreigners were escorted home.

285
00:19:45,655 --> 00:19:49,054
But the Soviet girls were punished by having
half their heads shaved.

286
00:19:49,888 --> 00:19:52,054
The next year, hundreds of mixed race...

287
00:19:52,421 --> 00:19:54,221
So-called festival babies were born.

288
00:19:57,254 --> 00:20:00,187
I was at that exact festival.

289
00:20:00,421 --> 00:20:02,287
And our girls...

290
00:20:03,054 --> 00:20:05,421
Decided to sleep with the n***s.

291
00:20:06,054 --> 00:20:07,988
A once-in-a-lifetime chance.

292
00:20:08,388 --> 00:20:11,154
She saw a n****...

293
00:20:11,421 --> 00:20:14,121
And she was ready for anything.

294
00:20:14,388 --> 00:20:18,054
So many little black babies were born.

295
00:20:20,287 --> 00:20:23,187
Everybody wanted one.

296
00:20:24,054 --> 00:20:26,821
The forbidden fruit is sweetest.

297
00:20:27,354 --> 00:20:29,655
It was an incredible trip.

298
00:20:30,755 --> 00:20:32,588
Some great ego trip.

299
00:20:32,821 --> 00:20:38,054
Not following the rules of the officialdom.

300
00:20:38,955 --> 00:20:42,187
If they say "no sex before marriage."

301
00:20:42,254 --> 00:20:45,021
You just go and you, sorry, fuck...

302
00:20:45,287 --> 00:20:47,121
Everybody in sight.

303
00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:50,955
And you protest. It's not only dissidents...

304
00:20:51,254 --> 00:20:53,554
But you did it in your way.

305
00:20:53,788 --> 00:20:57,021
Just breaking the laws, break the regulations...

306
00:20:57,254 --> 00:20:59,187
Of the Communist Party.

307
00:20:59,287 --> 00:21:04,354
And you felt sort of double ingratiated.

308
00:21:04,621 --> 00:21:06,488
First of all, you had this woman.

309
00:21:07,388 --> 00:21:11,221
Secondly, you fucked, sorry,
The Communist Party.

310
00:21:12,187 --> 00:21:14,588
The soul of the Soviet Union...

311
00:21:14,788 --> 00:21:16,855
If you want one word:

312
00:21:18,021 --> 00:21:20,154
Hypocrisy.

313
00:21:20,454 --> 00:21:27,454
What a person says
is not what he thinks.

314
00:21:28,154 --> 00:21:34,888
What he thinks is
not what he'd like to think.

315
00:21:35,988 --> 00:21:40,821
And he relates to others
not in the way that he should.

316
00:21:41,154 --> 00:21:43,254
This is hypocrisy.

317
00:21:43,755 --> 00:21:47,121
Sex, sex, sex. And not just sex at home.

318
00:21:47,688 --> 00:21:50,388
But the best sex is sex on the side.

319
00:21:51,454 --> 00:21:55,821
I haven't seen a single honest man.

320
00:21:56,755 --> 00:22:02,388
My husband, his brother, another brother.

321
00:22:02,655 --> 00:22:04,287
They're all skirt-chasers.

322
00:22:04,821 --> 00:22:07,388
My husband Grysha.

323
00:22:07,554 --> 00:22:12,788
He had Olya, Katya, Galya...

324
00:22:13,588 --> 00:22:15,287
Three beautiful girls.

325
00:22:15,588 --> 00:22:17,588
And he went to that one, that one, that one.

326
00:22:18,187 --> 00:22:21,855
There's no man who doesn't cheat.

327
00:22:22,021 --> 00:22:26,821
There are some women who are honorable.

328
00:22:27,287 --> 00:22:31,154
But they're a tiny percent.

329
00:22:31,588 --> 00:22:33,354
The rest are whores.

330
00:22:33,554 --> 00:22:41,121
Give her a bauble, she's ready to go.

331
00:22:41,388 --> 00:22:44,054
Your friends will fuck her.

332
00:22:44,488 --> 00:22:48,888
Cheating is "jumping into buckwheat."

333
00:22:49,488 --> 00:22:53,755
"Jump into buckwheat" is to find sex on the side.

334
00:22:54,388 --> 00:22:56,855
The buckwheat hides you.

335
00:22:57,021 --> 00:23:00,855
It smells good when it blooms.

336
00:23:01,121 --> 00:23:04,021
And it's cozy there.

337
00:23:04,388 --> 00:23:10,488
But we had no buckwheat to jump into.

338
00:23:11,121 --> 00:23:12,788
You can't bring her home because of the wife.

339
00:23:13,054 --> 00:23:15,655
They only let you into hotels with passports.

340
00:23:15,988 --> 00:23:18,888
Hotels only allowed married couples.

341
00:23:19,221 --> 00:23:24,454
The scariest person was the manager.

342
00:23:25,588 --> 00:23:27,154
"Reception"

343
00:23:27,621 --> 00:23:30,388
Her main and only task was...

344
00:23:30,621 --> 00:23:32,221
To prevent anyone...

345
00:23:32,488 --> 00:23:35,354
Entering your room. God forbid!

346
00:23:35,554 --> 00:23:38,855
Several times unknown persons were invited into the rooms.

347
00:23:39,121 --> 00:23:40,788
Total unknowns.

348
00:23:41,021 --> 00:23:43,421
Without even a passport.

349
00:23:43,955 --> 00:23:48,154
We decided to punish them.

350
00:23:48,388 --> 00:23:51,554
Revoked their right to live in the city.

351
00:23:52,054 --> 00:23:56,655
The number of times I had sex outdoors...

352
00:24:02,287 --> 00:24:03,655
Zero.

353
00:24:05,988 --> 00:24:09,187
Somehow you don't understand anything.

354
00:24:10,054 --> 00:24:14,755
People could find privacy in parks...

355
00:24:15,021 --> 00:24:17,287
In shady alleys.

356
00:24:17,287 --> 00:24:18,788
There were benches.

357
00:24:20,187 --> 00:24:21,655
And of course, the theater.

358
00:24:21,955 --> 00:24:23,154
In the back row...

359
00:24:23,488 --> 00:24:26,287
You could kiss as much as you liked.

360
00:24:26,888 --> 00:24:29,955
And be pleasured by your lover.

361
00:24:30,655 --> 00:24:33,454
We had sheds. Near the house.

362
00:24:34,588 --> 00:24:36,554
It's possible.

363
00:24:37,354 --> 00:24:39,955
There were gardens. Also possible.

364
00:24:40,354 --> 00:24:42,421
Find a toilet.

365
00:24:42,655 --> 00:24:43,988
Any toilet works.

366
00:24:44,154 --> 00:24:45,888
You do it standing up.

367
00:24:46,588 --> 00:24:49,655
Or in a basement. You could find a place.

368
00:24:50,554 --> 00:24:53,621
This is disgusting. We didn't have it.

369
00:24:54,955 --> 00:24:56,955
Categorically I tell you.

370
00:24:57,254 --> 00:24:59,588
On the stairs or under a tree...

371
00:25:00,254 --> 00:25:01,421
Didn't happen.

372
00:25:02,621 --> 00:25:03,888
Disgusting.

373
00:25:04,554 --> 00:25:06,421
What you're asking is just odious.

374
00:25:07,154 --> 00:25:11,054
In the summer you
could drive to a quiet spot.

375
00:25:11,421 --> 00:25:12,755
And enjoy yourself.

376
00:25:13,154 --> 00:25:16,855
But what to do in winter? When it's cold.

377
00:25:17,955 --> 00:25:20,688
There was only one place left - in the garage.

378
00:25:21,121 --> 00:25:23,488
A lot of couples, when they got cold...

379
00:25:23,788 --> 00:25:25,788
Turned on the engine.

380
00:25:26,588 --> 00:25:29,021
They didn't know that the fumes...

381
00:25:29,755 --> 00:25:34,655
Could make them fall asleep such that...

382
00:25:35,121 --> 00:25:37,221
They would never wake up.

383
00:25:38,054 --> 00:25:40,021
Everyone always said...

384
00:25:41,588 --> 00:25:44,388
There are no brothels in the Soviet Union.

385
00:25:44,554 --> 00:25:46,354
We don't need brothels.

386
00:25:46,621 --> 00:25:48,054
We have sanitoriums.

387
00:25:56,254 --> 00:26:00,855
The government distributed
vouchers for sanatoriums.

388
00:26:01,254 --> 00:26:03,888
Usually it was located on a sea coast.

389
00:26:04,421 --> 00:26:05,855
But it wasn't easy to take your family.

390
00:26:06,121 --> 00:26:09,221
You'd need two vouchers. Impossible!

391
00:26:10,588 --> 00:26:13,421
Come on, guys... Say goodbye to dad.

392
00:26:14,054 --> 00:26:15,755
Take care back here!

393
00:26:26,021 --> 00:26:29,821
It was a place of sanctioned lechery.

394
00:26:29,821 --> 00:26:33,021
Where Soviet people could relax.

395
00:26:33,621 --> 00:26:36,788
When you went to sanatorium,
it was always, you know, looking for sex.

396
00:26:37,655 --> 00:26:40,354
Oh, they go to the sanatorium to look for...

397
00:26:40,855 --> 00:26:43,621
To find a harem.

398
00:26:43,755 --> 00:26:47,121
My roommate was a sporty sailor.

399
00:26:47,121 --> 00:26:48,554
The first thing he said was...

400
00:26:48,688 --> 00:26:55,588
"Remember well, if my shorts
are on this side of the balcony..."

401
00:26:56,221 --> 00:26:57,821
"Do not enter!"

402
00:26:58,621 --> 00:27:01,788
"If they're on the other side, you can enter."

403
00:27:02,221 --> 00:27:04,755
"And you do the same."

404
00:27:05,655 --> 00:27:08,855
It's the sailor's rule: three days...

405
00:27:09,254 --> 00:27:10,755
New shift.

406
00:27:11,121 --> 00:27:14,154
Sex and vodka, vodka, sex, sex and vodka,

407
00:27:29,054 --> 00:27:33,021
They only noticed the sea on the last day and then went home.

408
00:27:33,287 --> 00:27:36,888
After his fun he comes home to his family.

409
00:27:37,488 --> 00:27:40,187
But his lover is not a fool.

410
00:27:40,588 --> 00:27:42,354
She gave a birth to twin girls.

411
00:27:42,788 --> 00:27:44,821
She came and left them on the doorstep.

412
00:27:45,688 --> 00:27:47,021
When the door was opened, she said:

413
00:27:47,621 --> 00:27:49,821
"Here's a present from the sanatorium."

414
00:27:50,488 --> 00:27:52,221
My mom told my father:

415
00:27:52,421 --> 00:27:56,888
"Look, you're with me all year."

416
00:27:57,888 --> 00:28:00,121
"But I'll give you one month."

417
00:28:00,988 --> 00:28:02,554
"Go wherever you want."

418
00:28:02,788 --> 00:28:06,454
"But beware not one single bitch..."

419
00:28:06,655 --> 00:28:11,888
"Comes to me and says she slept with my husband."

420
00:28:12,955 --> 00:28:14,988
I had very wise parents.

421
00:28:15,187 --> 00:28:18,988
My friend went to a sanatorium.

422
00:28:19,354 --> 00:28:25,821
She never had an orgasm with her husband.

423
00:28:26,421 --> 00:28:31,354
She never even knew what it was.

424
00:28:32,454 --> 00:28:38,121
But at the sanitorium she found
some guys to teach her.

425
00:28:40,154 --> 00:28:42,621
I had the same experience.

426
00:28:43,021 --> 00:28:47,955
Just like my friend I never have an orgasm.

427
00:28:48,855 --> 00:28:51,655
It all depends on the man.

428
00:28:52,221 --> 00:28:56,187
He is responsible, not the woman.

429
00:28:57,621 --> 00:29:02,454
If he's experienced and knows what he's doing...

430
00:29:02,888 --> 00:29:05,421
He can make her orgasm.

431
00:29:11,588 --> 00:29:15,221
That I know how to give a blowjob
and am "Queen of the Bedroom."

432
00:29:15,287 --> 00:29:18,021
None of my four husbands ever knew.

433
00:29:18,554 --> 00:29:20,454
Not the second...

434
00:29:21,221 --> 00:29:23,855
Not the third. Certainly not the fourth.

435
00:29:24,154 --> 00:29:28,254
None had a clue I could give a blowjob.

436
00:29:29,254 --> 00:29:32,187
And the first one was a total flop anyway.

437
00:29:32,388 --> 00:29:34,354
What's up here?

438
00:29:36,888 --> 00:29:37,988
Hi sweetie.

439
00:29:38,488 --> 00:29:41,554
"I'm waiting for you. I have time now..."

440
00:29:41,788 --> 00:29:46,688
You're home? Please honey, just wait a bit longer.

441
00:29:48,688 --> 00:29:50,154
Who was that?

442
00:29:50,621 --> 00:29:51,688
My lover.

443
00:29:54,788 --> 00:29:57,621
My husband asked, "Do you love me?"

444
00:29:57,788 --> 00:30:01,454
I said, "Buddy, is the word 'love' in 'husband'?"

445
00:30:01,554 --> 00:30:03,454
A lover is for love.

446
00:30:03,588 --> 00:30:05,454
A husband is a duty.

447
00:30:09,955 --> 00:30:14,688
You mean con-tra-cep-tion, right?

448
00:30:14,821 --> 00:30:16,621
In my life, there was none of that.

449
00:30:17,121 --> 00:30:19,621
What's it called? Condoms.

450
00:30:19,788 --> 00:30:22,988
Maybe smart people had them somewhere.

451
00:30:23,221 --> 00:30:25,621
But not fools like us.

452
00:30:25,688 --> 00:30:26,988
We didn't understand this.

453
00:30:28,054 --> 00:30:29,755
Even condoms were in shortage.

454
00:30:30,388 --> 00:30:32,054
We never heard of the pills.

455
00:30:32,888 --> 00:30:37,588
Pills were something that existed
only in the Western movies.

456
00:30:37,688 --> 00:30:39,888
When they appeared...

457
00:30:40,121 --> 00:30:43,588
So-called "Rubber Item

458
00:30:44,021 --> 00:30:47,421
Many were ashamed to buy them.

459
00:30:47,554 --> 00:30:54,621
We told the pharmacist: "A pack of aspirin..."

460
00:30:55,054 --> 00:30:58,354
With a wink.

461
00:30:58,354 --> 00:31:05,388
There were two in a pack and very thick.

462
00:31:05,588 --> 00:31:08,655
The condoms were so thick.

463
00:31:09,554 --> 00:31:14,187
Three times thicker than air balloons.

464
00:31:14,788 --> 00:31:17,755
But they burst at the critical moment.

465
00:31:17,855 --> 00:31:22,388
Pregnancy was the biggest danger.

466
00:31:22,888 --> 00:31:25,454
Oh, problem number one - not to get pregnant.

467
00:31:26,955 --> 00:31:27,755
Who needs it?

468
00:31:27,955 --> 00:31:31,054
Because it was problem with apartments.

469
00:31:31,688 --> 00:31:33,955
Difficulties with kindergarten.

470
00:31:34,221 --> 00:31:36,488
Men have this saying:

471
00:31:36,688 --> 00:31:42,454
"Giving birth is not our chore;
In and out and off for more."

472
00:31:42,688 --> 00:31:46,488
It was on the women to provide.

473
00:31:46,821 --> 00:31:48,988
Whoever got her pregnant doesn't care.

474
00:31:49,221 --> 00:31:52,287
It's her problem.

475
00:31:52,821 --> 00:31:55,388
Most of my female lovers they were married.

476
00:31:56,054 --> 00:31:57,855
So even if she gets pregnant...

477
00:31:58,821 --> 00:32:01,121
It's her problem, not mine,
Because she has a husband.

478
00:32:01,421 --> 00:32:05,421
So it was safe for me to have
a sexual relationship with her.

479
00:32:06,588 --> 00:32:08,588
Because using condom...

480
00:32:12,354 --> 00:32:15,221
Unfortunately, it always
turned out for me that...

481
00:32:16,388 --> 00:32:19,354
All the time she was in a condition...

482
00:32:19,821 --> 00:32:21,621
She got upset with me.

483
00:32:21,955 --> 00:32:24,221
I couldn't control myself, so...

484
00:32:25,621 --> 00:32:27,454
Abortions happened.

485
00:32:27,855 --> 00:32:31,154
Then we made love even better.

486
00:32:31,688 --> 00:32:34,054
Without protection.

487
00:32:35,988 --> 00:32:37,655
And he comes inside me!

488
00:32:37,821 --> 00:32:39,888
I asked him not to get me pregnant...

489
00:32:40,121 --> 00:32:41,121
"I'm not coming inside!"

490
00:32:41,287 --> 00:32:42,821
And he comes inside!

491
00:32:43,121 --> 00:32:45,121
And then I'm pregnant again.

492
00:32:48,354 --> 00:32:53,121
But abortions will happen, because contraceptives are very expensive.

493
00:32:53,488 --> 00:32:57,021
Much more than the cost of an abortion.

494
00:32:59,788 --> 00:33:01,154
"So you're 17 years old..."

495
00:33:01,855 --> 00:33:05,221
"How long have you been sexually active?"

496
00:33:05,454 --> 00:33:07,287
Four months.

497
00:33:07,488 --> 00:33:14,488
"You're 11 weeks pregnant.
What do you want to do?"

498
00:33:17,688 --> 00:33:19,888
I have no idea how this happened.

499
00:33:20,221 --> 00:33:23,955
I told her how to douche with hot water.

500
00:33:24,254 --> 00:33:27,621
"Mom, I want to try something else."

501
00:33:28,154 --> 00:33:31,354
I said, "No! Just use hot water."

502
00:33:31,588 --> 00:33:35,554
"So much for your hot water, mom!"

503
00:33:35,788 --> 00:33:38,988
Stalin banned abortion.

504
00:33:39,354 --> 00:33:42,021
In USSR abortion was forbidden.

505
00:33:43,354 --> 00:33:45,454
After the war...

506
00:33:45,955 --> 00:33:48,688
Many people had been killed, there were no people.

507
00:33:49,121 --> 00:33:51,788
So to build the population they forbade abortion.

508
00:33:52,287 --> 00:33:54,254
So more soldier-boys would be born.

509
00:33:54,421 --> 00:33:56,621
They needed to increase the population.

510
00:33:58,021 --> 00:34:00,187
They needed canon fodder.

511
00:34:15,688 --> 00:34:19,054
But to get an abortion, it was a big hassle.

512
00:34:19,421 --> 00:34:22,221
Then they would report it
at your place of study or work.

513
00:34:22,621 --> 00:34:24,454
It was a shame for her.

514
00:34:24,454 --> 00:34:28,821
Because she was universally condemned.

515
00:34:29,121 --> 00:34:33,788
You come and they write "abortion"
in your medical record.

516
00:34:34,621 --> 00:34:38,421
And maybe not everyone wanted
for this to be public.

517
00:34:39,054 --> 00:34:43,454
So girls went for criminal abortions.

518
00:34:43,788 --> 00:34:47,254
Abortion in Russia remains one of the most dangerous operations.

519
00:34:47,755 --> 00:34:51,488
Last year 243 women died during its performance.

520
00:34:51,955 --> 00:34:56,154
Half of those who had abortions
get complications and various diseases.

521
00:34:56,588 --> 00:35:00,454
Nevertheless, Russia remains one of the leaders in
the number of abortions in the world.

522
00:35:00,955 --> 00:35:03,254
Last year 3 million were performed.

523
00:35:03,655 --> 00:35:06,588
This is almost 10 times more than in Western European countries.

524
00:35:07,054 --> 00:35:10,388
Despite the fact that this operation is legal in Russia,

525
00:35:10,755 --> 00:35:16,254
For each legal recorded abortion,
ten illegal abortions are performed.

526
00:35:16,554 --> 00:35:21,855
Catapult! Training apparatus for pilots.

527
00:35:21,855 --> 00:35:24,354
We pilots had an idea.

528
00:35:24,588 --> 00:35:26,755
We had catapult simulator.

529
00:35:27,121 --> 00:35:29,121
In the first trimester...

530
00:35:29,254 --> 00:35:33,688
We strapped her in and catapulted her!

531
00:35:35,121 --> 00:35:38,221
The uterus stays in place, and the embryo detaches.

532
00:35:39,287 --> 00:35:41,254
In few days... presto!

533
00:35:41,488 --> 00:35:43,821
The pregnancy was terminated.

534
00:35:44,054 --> 00:35:47,488
Without any surgical intervention or consequences.

535
00:35:47,855 --> 00:35:50,021
We saved these girls.

536
00:35:50,187 --> 00:35:51,988
For that they repaid us...

537
00:35:52,221 --> 00:35:53,621
As only a girl can.

538
00:35:53,688 --> 00:35:56,454
Lordy, my darlings.

539
00:35:56,788 --> 00:35:58,554
People would do anything:

540
00:35:58,655 --> 00:35:59,988
Drank kerosine.

541
00:36:00,287 --> 00:36:03,755
Girls poked with nails down there.

542
00:36:04,187 --> 00:36:08,855
People performed abortions in their homes.

543
00:36:09,287 --> 00:36:11,488
Grannies did abortions.

544
00:36:11,788 --> 00:36:14,221
Many young girls died from this.

545
00:36:14,688 --> 00:36:18,154
Because if you tell anyone they'll try to help.

546
00:36:18,655 --> 00:36:20,821
But if they help they go to jail.

547
00:36:21,054 --> 00:36:23,855
Both jailed: You and whoever helped you.

548
00:36:24,121 --> 00:36:28,588
Girls would die before telling who did the abortion.

549
00:36:30,388 --> 00:36:32,554
The first thing I would like to say...

550
00:36:32,855 --> 00:36:34,388
So no one has any illusions.

551
00:36:34,655 --> 00:36:37,554
Dear viewers, abortion is baby murder.

552
00:36:37,688 --> 00:36:38,988
It's a mortal sin.

553
00:36:39,655 --> 00:36:43,688
The second thing I want
to say is that all contraceptives...

554
00:36:43,988 --> 00:36:48,054
Hormonal, IUDs, diaphragms, condoms.

555
00:36:48,821 --> 00:36:52,888
And all these horrific devilish
devices shown on television...

556
00:36:53,121 --> 00:36:55,454
They all lead to abortion, which is murder.

557
00:36:56,221 --> 00:36:59,154
A 16 year old girl was raped and got pregnant.

558
00:36:59,988 --> 00:37:05,187
And she was given a lecture like what we just heard.

559
00:37:05,755 --> 00:37:07,354
That abortion is murder.

560
00:37:07,788 --> 00:37:09,688
And you will be a murderer if you have an abortion.

561
00:37:09,821 --> 00:37:11,154
So she hanged herself.

562
00:37:11,287 --> 00:37:12,855
Anybody else want to comment?

563
00:37:13,021 --> 00:37:14,988
Abortions in minors...

564
00:37:15,287 --> 00:37:20,021
Is a national catastrophe for Russia.

565
00:37:20,121 --> 00:37:25,855
Because a woman who has an abortion before 21...

566
00:37:26,221 --> 00:37:33,588
Can never have a baby, according to medical data.

567
00:37:34,254 --> 00:37:39,988
After the rape, if she can't raise the child...

568
00:37:40,154 --> 00:37:41,821
At least give birth to it.

569
00:37:42,021 --> 00:37:44,588
Give the child life and preserve your own health.

570
00:37:44,788 --> 00:37:48,287
I want to ask you Father,
about these 3 million women.

571
00:37:48,488 --> 00:37:51,855
Should we line them up and shoot
them for being murderers?

572
00:37:52,254 --> 00:37:54,788
Or do you want to put them all in prison?

573
00:37:55,554 --> 00:37:57,655
Allow me to ask one more question.

574
00:37:57,988 --> 00:38:01,488
When we say we need to wage wars of liberation,

575
00:38:02,254 --> 00:38:07,287
When we say the government
must maintain its sovereignty.

576
00:38:07,788 --> 00:38:11,421
Isn't there a possibility
of killing innocent civilians?

577
00:38:11,955 --> 00:38:14,488
Why aren't you protesting
against this, dear Father?

578
00:38:14,888 --> 00:38:19,621
And it's time to stop placing the state's
irresponsibility towards its future...

579
00:38:20,187 --> 00:38:23,855
On the powerless shoulders of women.

580
00:38:24,388 --> 00:38:27,788
Catastrophe! It was a catastrophe.

581
00:38:27,988 --> 00:38:30,554
Women had a lot of abortions.

582
00:38:30,655 --> 00:38:33,788
Backstreet abortions were seriously punished.

583
00:38:33,988 --> 00:38:35,121
People went to jail.

584
00:38:35,588 --> 00:38:40,788
I know a woman with three kids,
who died from an abortion.

585
00:38:41,588 --> 00:38:46,454
And the woman who helped her
also had three kids; she served seven years.

586
00:38:47,154 --> 00:38:50,955
My neighbor Sanka Alyoshiha...

587
00:38:51,121 --> 00:38:54,054
She was asked in the hospital: "Who did this?"

588
00:38:54,988 --> 00:38:57,221
"A grass snake bit me."

589
00:38:57,488 --> 00:39:01,154
"Grass snakes don't bite,
somebody did an abortion."

590
00:39:01,388 --> 00:39:04,621
Someone tore her uterus
and she was bleeding everywhere.

591
00:39:05,121 --> 00:39:07,554
They demanded: "Who did this to you?"

592
00:39:07,821 --> 00:39:09,554
"A snake, a snake."

593
00:39:10,121 --> 00:39:11,988
"So we won't help you."

594
00:39:12,054 --> 00:39:13,354
And they didn't.

595
00:39:13,554 --> 00:39:14,988
So she died and got buried.

596
00:39:15,621 --> 00:39:21,955
So many girls committed suicide.

597
00:39:22,187 --> 00:39:24,554
Because they didn't see another way out.

598
00:39:24,888 --> 00:39:27,388
My sister came and said:

599
00:39:27,988 --> 00:39:29,821
I need help; I'm pregnant.

600
00:39:30,421 --> 00:39:32,454
She bribed a doctor.

601
00:39:33,388 --> 00:39:34,588
Right on that table...

602
00:39:34,855 --> 00:39:37,388
We put a sheet, my sister lays down.

603
00:39:37,821 --> 00:39:42,054
She sits, he opens her womb, blood runs everywhere.

604
00:39:42,821 --> 00:39:45,554
I almost fell there. I almost fainted.

605
00:39:46,121 --> 00:39:50,388
"Calm down, you have to help me."

606
00:39:50,755 --> 00:39:52,655
And she got an infection.

607
00:39:52,788 --> 00:39:56,021
She was in the hospital for a whole month.

608
00:39:56,454 --> 00:40:01,621
In a huge room with 20 other women.

609
00:40:02,221 --> 00:40:04,988
Everyone died except my sister Yulia.

610
00:40:05,187 --> 00:40:09,788
I was knocked up many times myself.

611
00:40:10,121 --> 00:40:11,788
So many times.

612
00:40:16,054 --> 00:40:17,554
How many times?

613
00:40:17,788 --> 00:40:23,221
More than ten abortions.

614
00:40:24,421 --> 00:40:29,221
Every five months I run for new abortion.

615
00:40:29,454 --> 00:40:32,588
I also found myself on that operating table.

616
00:40:32,821 --> 00:40:36,021
A gynecologist named Mueller.

617
00:40:36,454 --> 00:40:41,287
He said: "Do you want to avoid pregnancies?"

618
00:40:41,554 --> 00:40:43,888
I said, "Of course!"

619
00:40:44,154 --> 00:40:47,287
"Have sex right away with many men."

620
00:40:47,988 --> 00:40:52,254
"I'm giving you a hint," he said.

621
00:40:52,788 --> 00:40:57,788
Abortions were the only available...

622
00:40:58,121 --> 00:41:00,788
Means of birth control, in fact.

623
00:41:01,121 --> 00:41:05,821
It was just having your body as a battle,
as a constant battlefield.

624
00:41:06,421 --> 00:41:09,588
Again I'm off to the hospital.

625
00:41:10,254 --> 00:41:15,388
Such a handsome young doctor was there.

626
00:41:15,688 --> 00:41:17,287
He looked at me and says:

627
00:41:17,621 --> 00:41:19,655
"Do you have children?"

628
00:41:19,888 --> 00:41:23,054
Meanwhile, he's scraping inside me.

629
00:41:23,287 --> 00:41:24,788
"Yes, I do."

630
00:41:25,354 --> 00:41:29,488
"Look, no offense, but I'll do something..."

631
00:41:29,755 --> 00:41:32,755
"So you never come back to me."

632
00:41:33,621 --> 00:41:36,621
After that, no more abortions.

633
00:41:36,855 --> 00:41:40,388
Thank the Lord for him.
If he hadn't done that...

634
00:41:40,955 --> 00:41:44,121
I'd be dead.

635
00:41:55,354 --> 00:41:59,021
Tell me, what is homosexuality for you?

636
00:42:00,087 --> 00:42:02,354
I was probably born this way.

637
00:42:03,054 --> 00:42:08,655
Because women never interested me.

638
00:42:09,955 --> 00:42:12,888
I don't understand.

639
00:42:13,187 --> 00:42:16,788
I've never hurt anyone in my entire life.

640
00:42:17,888 --> 00:42:21,388
I don't know why God punished me like this.

641
00:42:22,354 --> 00:42:26,287
In our country you don't
even control your own ass.

642
00:42:28,554 --> 00:42:29,821
In your own way.

643
00:42:32,187 --> 00:42:36,221
Because everything goes
straight to the Party committee.

644
00:42:36,888 --> 00:42:40,688
They try to brainwash
you in any way they can.

645
00:42:41,588 --> 00:42:44,388
So you become
identical to everyone else.

646
00:42:45,021 --> 00:42:48,955
To be the same as everyone.
Think like everyone, work like everyone...

647
00:42:49,287 --> 00:42:51,655
And to fuck like everyone else.

648
00:42:56,054 --> 00:43:00,154
I tried to hide my orientation.

649
00:43:00,154 --> 00:43:03,121
Because if God forbid anyone found out.

650
00:43:03,221 --> 00:43:06,488
You lose your humanity and become a scapegoat.

651
00:43:07,187 --> 00:43:14,221
You must be physically eliminated.

652
00:43:14,488 --> 00:43:20,888
Same-sex lovers are nature's mistakes.

653
00:43:21,488 --> 00:43:24,688
Genetic mistake, there's nothing to be done.

654
00:43:26,488 --> 00:43:32,955
They're a monstrosity that must be destroyed.

655
00:43:33,688 --> 00:43:35,755
I was thinking "What's wrong with me?"

656
00:43:37,021 --> 00:43:38,888
See? Because no, I was not gay.

657
00:43:38,988 --> 00:43:41,121
Gay? No, it's not a word you put in your mouth.

658
00:43:41,254 --> 00:43:44,054
"Ooh. Dirty. No, I'm not gay, I'm normal."

659
00:43:44,388 --> 00:43:48,454
So complicated because you want to survive.

660
00:43:49,655 --> 00:43:56,588
Mom says: "Yura, you're
getting older, you should marry."

661
00:43:56,821 --> 00:43:59,221
So I married.

662
00:43:59,588 --> 00:44:02,988
But something was wrong.

663
00:44:03,254 --> 00:44:06,988
I was ruining both our lives.

664
00:44:07,254 --> 00:44:13,021
Thank god, my wife understood everything.

665
00:44:13,354 --> 00:44:20,588
And we agreed to divorce.

666
00:44:24,655 --> 00:44:32,221
Back then, there were a
lot of places to pick up a guy.

667
00:44:58,121 --> 00:44:59,821
And clubs.

668
00:45:00,121 --> 00:45:01,855
All people would go to the bath.

669
00:45:02,855 --> 00:45:05,187
They could spend whole day...

670
00:45:06,187 --> 00:45:08,354
With all those activities.

671
00:45:08,621 --> 00:45:13,621
And come back to their
wives and children in the evening.

672
00:45:13,855 --> 00:45:17,287
When Maksim Gorkiy learned his son was gay.

673
00:45:18,554 --> 00:45:23,655
He told Stalin and Stalin added this law.

674
00:45:24,354 --> 00:45:27,121
Homosexuality was made unlawful.

675
00:45:30,287 --> 00:45:31,988
Before that it was allowed.

676
00:45:31,988 --> 00:45:36,688
I know the story of
Parajanov's arrest quite well.

677
00:45:37,021 --> 00:45:39,287
We were walking down the street.

678
00:45:39,421 --> 00:45:41,254
He pointed to a policeman: "See him?"

679
00:45:41,755 --> 00:45:43,121
"What about him?"

680
00:45:43,421 --> 00:45:45,221
"I screwed him yesterday."

681
00:45:46,354 --> 00:45:50,655
He constantly broke the frame of sexual life.

682
00:45:50,688 --> 00:45:53,955
He boasted, shockingly:

683
00:45:54,187 --> 00:45:57,655
"I already had all the Politburo members."

684
00:45:57,655 --> 00:46:00,454
Was he homosexual?

685
00:46:00,688 --> 00:46:02,655
That's not why they imprisoned him.

686
00:46:02,788 --> 00:46:05,021
He set such an example.

687
00:46:05,254 --> 00:46:09,454
That a free-thinking man is a beautiful man.

688
00:46:09,821 --> 00:46:11,454
A person you want to emulate.

689
00:46:12,021 --> 00:46:17,855
They imprisoned him so he wouldn't
infect others with the virus of freedom.

690
00:46:18,688 --> 00:46:21,454
Because they don't need independent people.

691
00:46:22,021 --> 00:46:25,254
A freedom-loving person won't give them anything good.

692
00:46:25,621 --> 00:46:28,554
There were called "Enemies of the People."

693
00:46:28,788 --> 00:46:31,888
But in fact they were enemies of the system.

694
00:46:31,888 --> 00:46:39,021
I understood there were some
informants among people around me.

695
00:46:39,121 --> 00:46:46,554
Then one day they called
me to come to the KGB office.

696
00:46:46,955 --> 00:46:49,121
There were two gay...

697
00:46:49,287 --> 00:46:53,121
Uh... two KGB persons.

698
00:46:53,454 --> 00:46:56,655
The discussion lasted for 8 hours.

699
00:46:57,254 --> 00:46:59,955
If I were not a member of Communist Party,

700
00:47:01,021 --> 00:47:04,788
And my relatives were not members of KGB.

701
00:47:06,788 --> 00:47:08,621
I think I wouldn't survive.

702
00:47:12,021 --> 00:47:15,655
Tell me, what is homosexuality for you?

703
00:47:17,154 --> 00:47:22,221
It's a worldview and a way of life.

704
00:47:26,287 --> 00:47:29,588
Soviet men generally humiliate women.

705
00:47:31,421 --> 00:47:33,888
Or licks her boots.

706
00:47:34,154 --> 00:47:36,054
Is this a relationship?

707
00:47:36,821 --> 00:47:39,588
Only in a "deviant" gay relationship...

708
00:47:41,287 --> 00:47:46,187
Is the true, sincere merger of souls possible...

709
00:47:46,655 --> 00:47:50,254
Through authentic male tenderness.

710
00:47:50,655 --> 00:47:53,388
Any human being needs...

711
00:47:53,821 --> 00:47:58,554
Not only sex, but also a soulmate.

712
00:47:58,688 --> 00:48:02,254
We had a long-term relationship.

713
00:48:03,955 --> 00:48:06,554
He was arrested.

714
00:48:06,554 --> 00:48:09,588
When I found out...

715
00:48:10,221 --> 00:48:13,988
I rushed to rescue him.

716
00:48:13,988 --> 00:48:16,221
I went to the KGB office.

717
00:48:16,955 --> 00:48:21,421
I said: "We're roommates."

718
00:48:21,655 --> 00:48:24,454
And they arrested me as well.

719
00:48:24,955 --> 00:48:29,187
"We are friends living together."

720
00:48:29,621 --> 00:48:30,855
"What's the matter?"

721
00:48:31,421 --> 00:48:33,388
How I can prove anything?

722
00:48:33,655 --> 00:48:36,788
They beat me for three days.

723
00:48:37,254 --> 00:48:41,421
"Confess you're one of those!"

724
00:48:41,588 --> 00:48:44,021
I relented. "Yeah, yeah."

725
00:48:44,621 --> 00:48:49,021
At the trial was a woman judge.

726
00:48:49,621 --> 00:48:54,554
She said: "You're a monstrosity
who should be destroyed."

727
00:48:55,021 --> 00:48:57,755
"You do not belong among normal people."

728
00:48:58,755 --> 00:49:00,588
So my sentence was one year.

729
00:49:01,254 --> 00:49:05,254
I'm nobody, a nothing.

730
00:49:05,388 --> 00:49:09,554
If they repeat: "You're a pig, a pig, a pig."

731
00:49:09,855 --> 00:49:12,421
At some point you'll "oink."

732
00:49:12,655 --> 00:49:19,187
I think they forged a link:
gay, prison, rape, filth.

733
00:49:19,221 --> 00:49:21,855
For all its anti-homosexual propaganda...

734
00:49:22,421 --> 00:49:25,121
The Soviet government itself created conditions...

735
00:49:25,187 --> 00:49:27,621
for the spread of this so-called pathology.

736
00:49:27,755 --> 00:49:31,121
By building entire cities dedicated to one industry...

737
00:49:31,287 --> 00:49:34,821
Men in factory towns and women in textile cities.

738
00:49:35,054 --> 00:49:38,054
Massive gender imbalances were created.

739
00:49:38,454 --> 00:49:42,655
Citizens craving human connection
found it where they could.

740
00:49:43,221 --> 00:49:47,154
Lesbianism was particularly
common due to a lack of men...

741
00:49:47,287 --> 00:49:50,788
And widespread alcoholism among those who existed.

742
00:49:51,955 --> 00:49:54,621
I spit on them, I can't stand it.

743
00:49:55,221 --> 00:50:01,388
How is this possible? A woman lying with a woman!

744
00:50:01,788 --> 00:50:04,488
Just thinking about it makes me tremble.

745
00:50:05,187 --> 00:50:08,187
Women lived with women in Soviet times.

746
00:50:08,554 --> 00:50:10,187
It just wasn't publicized.

747
00:50:10,488 --> 00:50:15,454
And they joked as follows,
"The pleasure is no worse than with a man.

748
00:50:15,688 --> 00:50:19,021
Plus, you won't get pregnant."

749
00:50:19,388 --> 00:50:22,221
In our factory worked…

750
00:50:22,421 --> 00:50:24,554
Now it's all gone…

751
00:50:25,821 --> 00:50:28,454
Vera and Lyuda.

752
00:50:29,154 --> 00:50:31,621
They lived together like man and wife.

753
00:50:31,855 --> 00:50:34,187
Holding hands and sleeping together.

754
00:50:34,588 --> 00:50:40,821
We all wondered how they did it?

755
00:50:41,054 --> 00:50:43,554
If it's a man, then it's like this.

756
00:50:43,821 --> 00:50:45,821
But what can girls do?

757
00:50:45,855 --> 00:50:48,655
Poke your finger there or what?

758
00:50:49,187 --> 00:50:51,287
Tell me, how? How is this?

759
00:50:51,688 --> 00:50:54,755
May God protect us from evil.

760
00:50:55,287 --> 00:50:59,221
This is beyond everything!

761
00:51:00,788 --> 00:51:04,855
I had a task to find some gay women.

762
00:51:05,955 --> 00:51:10,221
Well, that is the first time we see gay women here.

763
00:51:10,788 --> 00:51:13,554
There was one writer who played the guitar.

764
00:51:14,621 --> 00:51:18,488
"Let the guards strip search us."

765
00:51:18,621 --> 00:51:25,688
"Hey, pour a glass for the homeland."

766
00:51:25,688 --> 00:51:32,154
"We girls don't mind toasting with another shot."

767
00:51:32,788 --> 00:51:38,488
"To the suffering lesbians..."

768
00:51:39,187 --> 00:51:45,054
"For their first wedding night."

769
00:51:47,755 --> 00:51:52,254
I tried concealing my crime in the camp.

770
00:51:52,755 --> 00:51:55,688
Statute

771
00:51:56,054 --> 00:51:59,154
God forbid they find out there.

772
00:51:59,588 --> 00:52:02,955
They'll drag you against your will.

773
00:52:03,187 --> 00:52:09,021
Even in that society you're not a human anymore.

774
00:52:09,888 --> 00:52:13,554
I worked on a woodworking machine.

775
00:52:15,421 --> 00:52:23,588
And my hand got caught into the gears.

776
00:52:24,121 --> 00:52:26,021
They called a surgeon.

777
00:52:26,454 --> 00:52:31,187
He took a look, and asked: "What crime?"

778
00:52:31,788 --> 00:52:35,388
"Oh, you're a pedarast. No anesthesia for you then."

779
00:52:35,388 --> 00:52:38,755
So I had the surgery without anesthesia.

780
00:52:41,688 --> 00:52:44,421
Nobody touches such a person.

781
00:52:44,554 --> 00:52:49,588
The only way for them is to go to the bitchboys.

782
00:52:50,121 --> 00:52:52,888
They had a separate table in the canteen.

783
00:52:53,221 --> 00:52:56,755
If you sit at that table,
that's it, you're a "bitchboy" too.

784
00:52:58,187 --> 00:52:59,821
Understand?

785
00:53:00,821 --> 00:53:04,121
Sometimes I go to sleep and think..

786
00:53:05,488 --> 00:53:10,187
How did I manage to survive this hell?

787
00:53:11,454 --> 00:53:16,955
They think it's normal to humiliate people.

788
00:53:17,421 --> 00:53:19,121
What exactly does it mean?

789
00:53:19,354 --> 00:53:23,421
You are put in a cell with others.

790
00:53:23,955 --> 00:53:30,488
"Homos," as they say.

791
00:53:32,221 --> 00:53:36,488
And they rape you.

792
00:53:37,221 --> 00:53:41,454
What do you do if 10-20 people attack you?

793
00:53:50,254 --> 00:53:53,688
I served my term in Kharkov Camp

794
00:53:56,187 --> 00:53:59,454
Nightmarish memories of it still keep me awake.

795
00:54:00,121 --> 00:54:08,621
I served in the Gulag

796
00:54:09,354 --> 00:54:10,855
Along with Dr. Stern.

797
00:54:11,388 --> 00:54:13,688
Yes, we had dissidents.

798
00:54:13,888 --> 00:54:18,488
These people undermined
the Soviet system, made speeches...

799
00:54:18,988 --> 00:54:23,554
Pushed anti-Soviet propaganda.

800
00:54:24,154 --> 00:54:27,388
Thanks to people like Dr. Stern,
we survived.

801
00:54:27,588 --> 00:54:32,888
We first heard about human rights from Dr. Stern.

802
00:54:34,054 --> 00:54:37,955
He said, "It's temporary."

803
00:54:38,421 --> 00:54:42,454
"This is the worst they can do."

804
00:54:42,788 --> 00:54:50,021
"Don't let them destroy your humanity."

805
00:54:50,688 --> 00:54:54,054
Let me tell you an interesting story.

806
00:54:54,788 --> 00:54:57,554
I conducted experiments.

807
00:54:58,121 --> 00:55:05,855
I wanted to extinguish their
traditions, education, norms.

808
00:55:06,755 --> 00:55:13,121
To forget completely their free life.

809
00:55:13,154 --> 00:55:18,421
When you have a straight jacket on...

810
00:55:18,888 --> 00:55:25,488
You wanna take a breath, but you can't.

811
00:55:25,688 --> 00:55:27,588
Then a female doctor comes and...

812
00:55:27,955 --> 00:55:32,988
Stands over you while you're on the floor.

813
00:55:34,588 --> 00:55:37,621
She has no panties on, and says:

814
00:55:38,788 --> 00:55:41,488
"Take a peak..."

815
00:55:41,788 --> 00:55:42,821
"Before you die."

816
00:55:43,821 --> 00:55:47,054
I was building their moral character.

817
00:55:47,221 --> 00:55:49,955
Our motto: "Every officer is a tutor."

818
00:55:50,121 --> 00:55:52,488
I loved my job.

819
00:55:53,655 --> 00:55:55,955
Of course, 100%.

820
00:55:57,421 --> 00:56:02,655
You go in normal and
come out a totally different person.

821
00:56:03,221 --> 00:56:08,821
Stern was treated worst than others.

822
00:56:09,154 --> 00:56:14,154
They killed the human inside him.

823
00:56:14,988 --> 00:56:19,755
They handcuffed him, put a condom on a baton.

824
00:56:19,755 --> 00:56:26,388
And shoved it up his butt.

825
00:56:26,655 --> 00:56:28,454
It was a signal.

826
00:56:28,554 --> 00:56:33,988
If you act and speak like Stern...

827
00:56:34,221 --> 00:56:37,254
The same thing will happen to you.

828
00:56:38,254 --> 00:56:42,554
He never said exactly that he was raped.

829
00:56:43,054 --> 00:56:48,988
But I was keen to know, and hinted at it.

830
00:56:49,888 --> 00:56:57,121
I came to the conclusion that
he was raped, and over a long period.

831
00:56:57,688 --> 00:57:01,888
Stern said: "When I get out I'll write everything."

832
00:57:01,988 --> 00:57:04,454
"In my memoirs."

833
00:57:11,554 --> 00:57:16,388
Pornography is universal, but in the
Soviet Union it was also a weapon.

834
00:57:17,454 --> 00:57:22,621
Yuri Vasilchenko was a Pravda photographer
who took nude photos of his wife after work.

835
00:57:23,287 --> 00:57:26,588
When their marriage soured,
she sent the pictures to the secret police.

836
00:57:27,054 --> 00:57:28,988
And he was sentenced to five years in prison.

837
00:57:30,021 --> 00:57:34,121
When he later became my patient,
he suffered from a terror of intimacy...

838
00:57:34,421 --> 00:57:39,021
Having learned the hard lesson that
true privacy does not exist in the Soviet Union.

839
00:57:39,287 --> 00:57:41,955
Pornography was against the law.

840
00:57:42,287 --> 00:57:46,488
And this law comprised everything...

841
00:57:47,287 --> 00:57:50,254
That was related to sexuality.

842
00:57:50,621 --> 00:57:56,354
It was called "pornography distribution."

843
00:57:56,688 --> 00:57:58,388
And for this you get a prison term.

844
00:57:59,121 --> 00:58:01,421
Deaf-mutes would go through the trains,

845
00:58:01,955 --> 00:58:06,454
They sold all kinds of picture cards,

846
00:58:06,454 --> 00:58:12,121
With all sorts of erotic scenes.

847
00:58:12,888 --> 00:58:14,688
Why deaf-mutes?

848
00:58:14,955 --> 00:58:16,888
Because it's not worth arresting them.

849
00:58:16,955 --> 00:58:19,287
It was headache. What you will do with him?

850
00:58:19,588 --> 00:58:22,421
If you put him into the prison...

851
00:58:22,655 --> 00:58:24,855
He can't work there.

852
00:58:24,988 --> 00:58:29,821
He walks by, put a deck of cards in front of you.

853
00:58:30,021 --> 00:58:33,988
You quickly put it in you pocket before anyone sees.

854
00:58:34,688 --> 00:58:37,021
And then it's a pity to throw it away.

855
00:58:38,121 --> 00:58:41,287
That shit was everywhere, my God!

856
00:58:41,621 --> 00:58:47,755
They saw who had a lot of money and offered to them.

857
00:58:48,388 --> 00:58:51,421
Even old farts bought them.

858
00:58:51,588 --> 00:58:57,655
Usually it came from overseas, from sailors.

859
00:59:04,154 --> 00:59:10,988
Vladimir Vladimirovitch heads Odesa customs.

860
00:59:11,588 --> 00:59:16,388
Economic and ideological
contraband come together.

861
00:59:17,354 --> 00:59:21,287
We will never allow such depravity into the USSR.

862
00:59:21,287 --> 00:59:25,855
Whether it's bourgeois magazines deciding
to play on anti-Soviet sensation or a tabloid...

863
00:59:26,154 --> 00:59:30,421
With cheap porn that makes the eyes ashamed.

864
00:59:30,888 --> 00:59:35,988
Fighting this gave me a certain state of mind.

865
00:59:36,221 --> 00:59:38,154
It's in my blood.

866
00:59:38,588 --> 00:59:42,821
If I don't confiscate something, I feel sick.

867
00:59:45,287 --> 00:59:52,187
Many hours are spent
looking through such movies.

868
00:59:53,588 --> 00:59:55,588
Every single day.

869
00:59:59,888 --> 01:00:05,988
In later years porn movies appeared.

870
01:00:06,287 --> 01:00:12,621
However, where do we check?
Where do we check what's on these tapes?

871
01:00:14,755 --> 01:00:18,888
In the Black Sea administration there's no VCR.

872
01:00:19,554 --> 01:00:22,388
In our department there's no VCR,

873
01:00:22,988 --> 01:00:27,154
I don't have one. In the Mariupol
police department there's no VCR.

874
01:00:27,588 --> 01:00:30,955
But we knew who sold videotapes.

875
01:00:31,154 --> 01:00:35,855
If he's selling tapes, he must have a VCR.

876
01:00:36,154 --> 01:00:37,421
Our offer:

877
01:00:37,655 --> 01:00:41,655
"Next time we catch you, you can go free."

878
01:00:42,454 --> 01:00:48,354
"But now let us watch these
three tapes on your VCR."

879
01:00:48,388 --> 01:00:54,788
We photographed incriminating scenes.

880
01:00:55,588 --> 01:00:59,154
And presented evidence to the court.

881
01:00:59,588 --> 01:01:04,287
We were dependent on the porn dealers.

882
01:01:04,388 --> 01:01:06,688
We had no choice.

883
01:01:07,154 --> 01:01:09,755
The police started catching them.

884
01:01:10,154 --> 01:01:13,655
But how? They knocked on the door...

885
01:01:14,154 --> 01:01:17,021
Immediately they hid the cassette.

886
01:01:17,554 --> 01:01:22,354
So the police shut off the power to the apartment.

887
01:01:22,888 --> 01:01:27,388
So you couldn't remove the cassette from the VCR.

888
01:01:27,988 --> 01:01:32,655
When I was a student in
Leningrad we opened a home video club.

889
01:01:32,855 --> 01:01:41,855
Then I was charged with
"Distribution of Obscene Propaganda."

890
01:01:42,121 --> 01:01:45,354
We showed the film "Emmanuelle."

891
01:01:49,955 --> 01:01:55,054
That night I was arrested.

892
01:01:55,187 --> 01:01:57,054
They scared me very much.

893
01:01:57,421 --> 01:02:00,855
At first they told me that I'd get 15 years.

894
01:02:02,588 --> 01:02:06,688
And they started talking to me about a bribe,

895
01:02:08,154 --> 01:02:12,054
And we agreed on 1500 rubles.

896
01:02:12,688 --> 01:02:22,187
I paid, but I was kicked out
of university and left St. Petersburg.

897
01:02:49,554 --> 01:02:51,655
There's no work.

898
01:02:52,221 --> 01:02:54,855
There's no money at home. And what to do?

899
01:02:55,454 --> 01:02:56,955
Prostitution.

900
01:02:57,788 --> 01:02:58,955
No choice.

901
01:03:00,988 --> 01:03:05,221
I was a part of a police assistance squad.

902
01:03:05,655 --> 01:03:09,221
The senior policeman then tells me:

903
01:03:09,788 --> 01:03:11,588
"Chase away the prostitutes."

904
01:03:12,421 --> 01:03:14,388
I say, "What prostitutes?

905
01:03:15,354 --> 01:03:16,855
We don't have prostitutes."

906
01:03:17,221 --> 01:03:22,755
It wasn't like you could go buy a girl on the street.

907
01:03:23,221 --> 01:03:27,021
I never saw or heard of such a thing.

908
01:03:27,021 --> 01:03:29,988
A dime a dozen. Prostitutes were everywhere!

909
01:03:30,554 --> 01:03:33,054
They're fucking on every corner.

910
01:03:34,021 --> 01:03:36,054
On the street, the plague!

911
01:03:36,688 --> 01:03:38,788
In the parks, everywhere, my God!

912
01:03:40,054 --> 01:03:41,655
I walked down Khreshchatyk.

913
01:03:42,421 --> 01:03:45,755
Started looking carefully in this direction.

914
01:03:47,655 --> 01:03:51,021
I got the feeling everyone was a prostitute.

915
01:03:52,955 --> 01:03:54,755
You're walking down the street...

916
01:03:55,187 --> 01:03:57,655
You see a woman in a fur coat.

917
01:03:58,187 --> 01:03:59,354
She sees you...

918
01:03:59,955 --> 01:04:02,855
Checks you out.

919
01:04:03,388 --> 01:04:05,788
And does like this... She has nothing on.

920
01:04:06,287 --> 01:04:07,821
Absolutely!

921
01:04:08,221 --> 01:04:10,655
Absolutely naked!

922
01:04:13,287 --> 01:04:14,187
In the daytime.

923
01:04:14,688 --> 01:04:16,655
Especially in the Soviet Union.

924
01:04:17,187 --> 01:04:18,554
Salaries were so low.

925
01:04:18,821 --> 01:04:21,855
No work, no money. What to do?

926
01:04:24,187 --> 01:04:28,121
I became a prostitute about a year ago.

927
01:04:28,788 --> 01:04:32,755
We're mostly minors under 18.

928
01:04:32,988 --> 01:04:36,855
By the way, in our city there's a shortage
of prostitutes, of course.

929
01:04:37,454 --> 01:04:40,588
Because there is a huge demand.

930
01:04:40,955 --> 01:04:45,054
If there are clients, there are pimps.

931
01:05:08,021 --> 01:05:12,488
This is forbidden. You'll immediately get 10 years.

932
01:05:14,154 --> 01:05:16,788
I don't consider the punishment fair.

933
01:05:17,021 --> 01:05:18,888
But is too late.

934
01:05:18,888 --> 01:05:21,855
My parents didn't know what I was doing.

935
01:05:21,888 --> 01:05:25,121
I told them I was working.

936
01:05:25,955 --> 01:05:29,021
Only at the trial it became clear what I was doing.

937
01:05:29,688 --> 01:05:31,988
There were no official prostitutes.

938
01:05:33,187 --> 01:05:37,988
But a certain amount of women was allowed.

939
01:05:38,221 --> 01:05:43,154
To practice it and report on the others

940
01:05:44,121 --> 01:05:46,788
Who were not registered with the secret police.

941
01:05:47,621 --> 01:05:49,421
So they had a function in this society.

942
01:05:50,588 --> 01:05:52,488
Nice man.

943
01:05:52,688 --> 01:05:55,554
Do you like me?
Yes, I like you.

944
01:05:55,888 --> 01:05:57,821
I like you too.

945
01:05:58,354 --> 01:06:00,454
And you came into the hotel?

946
01:06:00,888 --> 01:06:02,354
To you hotel I come.

947
01:06:04,054 --> 01:06:06,021
I like present.

948
01:06:06,821 --> 01:06:09,955
There was prostitution in the USSR.

949
01:06:10,554 --> 01:06:15,287
But it was illegal and had a different form.

950
01:06:16,588 --> 01:06:21,588
Many women had been compromised.

951
01:06:21,888 --> 01:06:26,888
They didn't send them to prison, but...

952
01:06:27,621 --> 01:06:40,988
They threatened to reopen the case
if they didn't obey and send them to jail.

953
01:06:49,388 --> 01:06:51,588
"I eat from dumpsters."

954
01:06:51,755 --> 01:06:53,988
"I drink from puddles."

955
01:06:54,688 --> 01:06:58,354
"The rain soaks me, it's my shower."

956
01:07:00,087 --> 01:07:04,354
"I'm the worst; much worse than you."

957
01:07:04,655 --> 01:07:10,855
"I'm the most useless. I'm nasty. I'm dirt."

958
01:07:15,955 --> 01:07:17,655
I'm a loser.

959
01:07:17,821 --> 01:07:19,821
What are you here for?

960
01:07:20,421 --> 01:07:21,488
For prostitution?

961
01:07:21,688 --> 01:07:23,588
I’m here for...

962
01:07:25,054 --> 01:07:26,955
Foreign currency exchange and theft...

963
01:07:28,154 --> 01:07:29,821
Of property from foreigners.

964
01:07:30,254 --> 01:07:31,588
By engaging in prostitution?

965
01:07:32,054 --> 01:07:33,054
No, for possessing foreign currency.

966
01:07:33,254 --> 01:07:35,054
It's easier to convict that way.

967
01:07:35,287 --> 01:07:38,287
It's no problem to jail an ordinary person.

968
01:07:39,221 --> 01:07:42,454
It is very surprising to see all this in your country.

969
01:07:42,788 --> 01:07:46,154
If in Brazil I was told about
the existence of prostitutes in the USSR,

970
01:07:46,287 --> 01:07:47,254
I wouldn't have believed it.

971
01:07:47,354 --> 01:07:49,354
Why is prostitution immoral?

972
01:07:49,621 --> 01:07:51,221
Because it's for money?

973
01:07:51,788 --> 01:07:54,454
When husbands cheat on their wives, is it moral?

974
01:07:54,688 --> 01:07:58,454
When teenagers arrange orgies, is it moral?

975
01:07:59,287 --> 01:08:01,254
How are dealings with foreigners?

976
01:08:01,488 --> 01:08:02,955
Of course, they're great.

977
01:08:03,187 --> 01:08:05,755
He values me as a woman, you understand?

978
01:08:05,988 --> 01:08:07,955
He pays me for this.

979
01:08:09,988 --> 01:08:11,955
What about Russians?

980
01:08:13,655 --> 01:08:14,988
Russians.

981
01:08:15,221 --> 01:08:17,421
Russians annoy me.

982
01:08:17,621 --> 01:08:23,788
With their behavior. They have no upbringing,
no manners, nothing.

983
01:08:25,788 --> 01:08:27,287
The thing is...

984
01:08:27,388 --> 01:08:29,755
It's not just the human body that's for sale.

985
01:08:30,287 --> 01:08:33,688
Much is for sale that shouldn't be.

986
01:08:34,855 --> 01:08:37,755
If a person is taught to deceive from childhood...

987
01:08:38,621 --> 01:08:42,154
It's not difficult for them to live a double life.

988
01:08:42,254 --> 01:08:43,655
Sex is everywhere.

989
01:08:44,588 --> 01:08:48,154
Always has been, always will be.

990
01:08:57,221 --> 01:09:01,254
You approach the chair with a flying gait.

991
01:09:02,621 --> 01:09:07,554
Sit down. Pull up your skirt,
even if it's not necessary.

992
01:09:07,955 --> 01:09:13,655
And completely synchronously
fold your arms, head, and legs.

993
01:09:30,054 --> 01:09:35,221
And we start with one of the standard phrases like:
"Are you angry?

994
01:09:35,688 --> 01:09:38,588
There's so much indignation in your voice...

995
01:09:39,154 --> 01:09:42,788
You're silent... You don't even want to talk to me."

996
01:09:43,021 --> 01:09:47,388
Lift your eyes to him and smile.

997
01:09:47,488 --> 01:09:49,221
Look confused.

998
01:09:49,454 --> 01:09:54,021
After this, all your actions
will be kindly accepted. Try it.

999
01:09:54,354 --> 01:09:56,988
Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

1000
01:09:57,187 --> 01:09:58,488
Open that little mouth.

1001
01:09:59,021 --> 01:10:00,688
Let's see the lips.

1002
01:10:00,821 --> 01:10:03,755
Where are those lips? Where?

1003
01:10:03,988 --> 01:10:05,421
Relax, relax, relax.

1004
01:10:07,254 --> 01:10:10,621
To be charming you must learn to smile.

1005
01:10:12,287 --> 01:10:17,454
Smile with a naive, ecstatic, mysterious smile.

1006
01:10:19,187 --> 01:10:21,755
Like Women's Day. What is Women's Day?

1007
01:10:22,888 --> 01:10:26,821
Women's Day is the day when all the men drink.

1008
01:10:27,788 --> 01:10:30,421
To their women, thanking them...

1009
01:10:30,588 --> 01:10:34,354
That they are so beautiful and that
they are so supportive...

1010
01:10:34,454 --> 01:10:37,955
And that they are so inspiring,
"Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah."

1011
01:10:38,187 --> 01:10:42,154
"Thank you so much, Darling.
Get your tulip and go to hell."

1012
01:10:42,621 --> 01:10:44,888
"To beat is to love."

1013
01:10:46,021 --> 01:10:47,688
"To beat is to love."

1014
01:10:48,655 --> 01:10:50,154
"To beat is to love."

1015
01:10:50,421 --> 01:10:52,755
That's how to make a woman happy.

1016
01:10:52,988 --> 01:10:54,821
Beating her shows his love.

1017
01:10:55,254 --> 01:11:00,221
That's the psychology of our women. Either...

1018
01:11:00,655 --> 01:11:03,354
Sex or beating.

1019
01:11:03,688 --> 01:11:07,488
Otherwise, it means he has a mistress.

1020
01:11:07,855 --> 01:11:09,821
This saying was accepted.

1021
01:11:10,588 --> 01:11:12,421
People said, "To beat is to love."

1022
01:11:12,788 --> 01:11:15,187
The system created this.

1023
01:11:16,588 --> 01:11:18,988
It was a complete degradation.

1024
01:11:21,855 --> 01:11:24,855
Through some sort of mass hypnosis.

1025
01:11:25,154 --> 01:11:28,855
One newlywed complained,
"Why don't you beat me?"

1026
01:11:29,121 --> 01:11:32,588
"You don't love me."
"What do you mean? I do everything for you."

1027
01:11:32,888 --> 01:11:37,154
"You don't beat me, so you don't love me."

1028
01:11:37,388 --> 01:11:39,688
So he started beating her.

1029
01:11:39,955 --> 01:11:43,955
He eventually beat her to death. That was his "love."

1030
01:11:44,187 --> 01:11:48,021
The first time my husband hit me...

1031
01:11:48,254 --> 01:11:51,287
He was a police officer, so he knew how to do it.

1032
01:11:52,454 --> 01:11:53,688
For what?

1033
01:11:54,988 --> 01:11:59,121
I was young. I had beautiful straight white teeth.

1034
01:11:59,354 --> 01:12:00,254
Like pearls.

1035
01:12:00,388 --> 01:12:01,554
He said to me...

1036
01:12:01,855 --> 01:12:07,121
"Stop smiling! When you smile your wrinkles show."

1037
01:12:07,554 --> 01:12:10,454
Do you hear? 21 years old,
I have wrinkles on my face.

1038
01:12:10,988 --> 01:12:13,054
One night we went to a party.

1039
01:12:13,955 --> 01:12:16,655
Probably I started smiling.

1040
01:12:16,888 --> 01:12:18,988
I can't help it, I'm smiley by nature.

1041
01:12:19,621 --> 01:12:22,021
When we got home it started.

1042
01:12:22,187 --> 01:12:27,354
Powerful punches in my belly and solar plexus.

1043
01:12:27,855 --> 01:12:31,955
He's trying to elevate her through beating.

1044
01:12:32,254 --> 01:12:36,354
She accepts it as part of her education.

1045
01:12:49,254 --> 01:12:52,621
He beat me, beat me.

1046
01:12:52,855 --> 01:12:58,221
He comes home, takes off
his belt with an iron buckle.

1047
01:12:58,588 --> 01:13:02,354
When he hit me, blood
started running from my nose.

1048
01:13:03,154 --> 01:13:07,187
I grabbed him: "If you ever touch me again..."

1049
01:13:07,554 --> 01:13:09,688
"I'll kill you, you bastard."

1050
01:13:10,988 --> 01:13:15,788
Since then he didn't touch me anymore.

1051
01:13:17,054 --> 01:13:22,488
The family is the cell of communist society.

1052
01:13:22,621 --> 01:13:25,254
In order to protect this "cell."

1053
01:13:25,488 --> 01:13:29,755
The Party used all their force.

1054
01:13:30,121 --> 01:13:31,688
Everything was taken under control.

1055
01:13:32,821 --> 01:13:36,788
Not just how you work, what you think,
But what you do at home,

1056
01:13:37,354 --> 01:13:40,621
How you sleep or don't sleep with your wife,
What you talk about there.

1057
01:13:41,054 --> 01:13:45,621
Family issues were resolved at Party meetings.

1058
01:13:46,187 --> 01:13:48,688
Will you be a family or not?

1059
01:13:49,221 --> 01:13:51,054
"You disgrace the Communist Party."

1060
01:13:51,254 --> 01:13:56,021
"Such a person is not worthy among our ranks."

1061
01:13:56,855 --> 01:14:00,755
If a woman comes to the Party committee...

1062
01:14:00,755 --> 01:14:04,154
And complains about her cheating husband.

1063
01:14:04,488 --> 01:14:06,788
The Party takes care of it.

1064
01:14:07,121 --> 01:14:14,421
He was condemned and
shamed by a hundred people.

1065
01:14:15,121 --> 01:14:17,655
"You shouldn't cheat on your wife!"

1066
01:14:17,888 --> 01:14:21,021
"You're destroying the unit of society."

1067
01:14:21,254 --> 01:14:24,254
So, I had to indicate a serious reason.

1068
01:14:24,755 --> 01:14:27,988
On the basis of which I'm getting divorced.

1069
01:14:28,187 --> 01:14:31,021
This was announced in the newspaper.

1070
01:14:31,254 --> 01:14:34,621
It was shameful, it was very difficult.

1071
01:14:34,821 --> 01:14:39,788
The party did more harm than good here.

1072
01:14:40,454 --> 01:14:45,221
Because the woman
complains about her bad husband.

1073
01:14:45,454 --> 01:14:49,821
But the Party makes her life worse.

1074
01:14:50,054 --> 01:14:51,788
He gets fired.

1075
01:14:52,388 --> 01:14:57,421
And now everyone knows
about this messed up family.

1076
01:14:58,187 --> 01:15:01,855
They said they were re-educating them.

1077
01:15:02,788 --> 01:15:05,221
They put them on the right path.

1078
01:15:05,287 --> 01:15:08,354
Listovsky with his disgraceful acts...

1079
01:15:08,621 --> 01:15:10,488
Forced the Komsomol committee...

1080
01:15:10,821 --> 01:15:13,955
To discuss his behavior at a general Komsomol meeting.

1081
01:15:14,388 --> 01:15:16,221
And his behavior in the family?

1082
01:15:16,454 --> 01:15:17,655
Disgraceful!

1083
01:15:22,154 --> 01:15:27,254
It was easy to "expose" a neighbor or acquaintance.

1084
01:15:28,287 --> 01:15:30,554
Whom you didn't like.

1085
01:15:31,388 --> 01:15:35,121
And get rid of him with no evidence.

1086
01:15:35,287 --> 01:15:39,054
Anonymous letters were written
on wives and husbands.

1087
01:15:39,354 --> 01:15:42,588
Well, for example, that your husband is cheating on you with so-and-so.

1088
01:15:42,955 --> 01:15:47,421
They wrote bullshit and didn't sign.

1089
01:15:48,821 --> 01:15:53,421
And then it gets to the leadership and they start investigating.

1090
01:15:53,621 --> 01:16:02,788
The Party had to analyze
all these anonymous letters.

1091
01:16:03,855 --> 01:16:11,621
There was this really good girl, my colleague.

1092
01:16:12,588 --> 01:16:17,354
But her husband wasn't so good.

1093
01:16:17,354 --> 01:16:19,888
He wrote a letter to the Party...

1094
01:16:20,421 --> 01:16:23,354
Asking us to investigate her behavior.

1095
01:16:23,421 --> 01:16:28,154
Because she performed oral sex on him.

1096
01:16:29,254 --> 01:16:34,655
And he says, "How can she,
a party member, engage in this?"

1097
01:16:35,655 --> 01:16:38,021
It was considered terribly bad.

1098
01:16:39,788 --> 01:16:42,454
"Uncle Five Kopeks" was his nickname.

1099
01:16:42,888 --> 01:16:45,788
He wrote anonymous letters against everyone.

1100
01:16:47,821 --> 01:16:50,821
Later in life, when he was an old man...

1101
01:16:51,821 --> 01:16:56,154
He mourned,
"How many people have I sent to prison?"

1102
01:17:02,254 --> 01:17:06,554
In any hotel in Leningrad or Moscow...

1103
01:17:07,254 --> 01:17:11,388
I saw it myself, there were prostitutes.

1104
01:17:12,588 --> 01:17:15,021
But they were all KGB people.

1105
01:17:16,187 --> 01:17:19,554
Women are the best spies.

1106
01:17:21,554 --> 01:17:24,888
They can accomplish anything.

1107
01:17:29,021 --> 01:17:35,488
She will eliminate you upon command.

1108
01:17:36,287 --> 01:17:47,154
Of course all of our top
missions included female spies.

1109
01:17:47,488 --> 01:17:56,755
The government had to know
what threats were among us.

1110
01:17:58,254 --> 01:18:02,421
People they wanted to
imprison for political reasons...

1111
01:18:02,655 --> 01:18:06,121
The KGB framed them.

1112
01:18:06,354 --> 01:18:10,154
They would send a female KGB worker.

1113
01:18:10,221 --> 01:18:12,021
Mykola Horbal, for instance.

1114
01:18:12,354 --> 01:18:15,788
Intelligent guy, walking down the street.

1115
01:18:16,187 --> 01:18:19,454
Suddenly a girl nearby starts to yell:

1116
01:18:19,688 --> 01:18:22,755
"Help! Help! I'm being raped and killed!"

1117
01:18:23,121 --> 01:18:25,988
She tore a button off herself.

1118
01:18:26,588 --> 01:18:30,421
The KGB was on the stakeout, of course.

1119
01:18:30,588 --> 01:18:34,955
I was not the first, thousands went to jail this way.

1120
01:18:35,254 --> 01:18:39,021
The courts were just
an extension of the KGB.

1121
01:18:39,221 --> 01:18:41,154
The judge repeated whatever the KGB said.

1122
01:18:41,488 --> 01:18:42,888
I got five years in prison.

1123
01:18:43,154 --> 01:18:46,287
For attempted rape.

1124
01:18:49,454 --> 01:18:52,755
Yes. Woman is the hunter;
man is the hunted.

1125
01:18:52,855 --> 01:18:55,554
While glamorized in popular culture...

1126
01:18:55,888 --> 01:18:59,488
The reality of the Soviet sex spy
program was mostly mundane.

1127
01:19:00,254 --> 01:19:03,354
Thousands started their intensive
training with foreign languages...

1128
01:19:03,888 --> 01:19:06,454
International etiquette, and Karl Marx.

1129
01:19:06,988 --> 01:19:11,955
In 1956, the Soviet premier set one
of the most elaborate sex traps ever.

1130
01:19:12,388 --> 01:19:14,388
The French Ambassador Maurice Dejean...

1131
01:19:15,054 --> 01:19:19,421
Blessed by de Gaulle and considered
a favorite for the next president of France...

1132
01:19:19,755 --> 01:19:22,688
Arrived in Moscow with his wife,
but was quickly seduced...

1133
01:19:22,855 --> 01:19:25,287
By several Bolshoi ballerinas.

1134
01:19:26,988 --> 01:19:28,688
Larissa Kronberg was his favorite.

1135
01:19:29,287 --> 01:19:32,588
And as an experienced spy, she arranged for his wife...

1136
01:19:32,688 --> 01:19:35,788
To leave for a long sail up the Moscow river.

1137
01:19:36,454 --> 01:19:39,187
While she procured the necessary compromising material.

1138
01:19:40,354 --> 01:19:42,688
When promised no one would see the photos...

1139
01:19:42,888 --> 01:19:46,988
Maurice agreed to cooperate with
the Russian Secret Service for life.

1140
01:19:47,454 --> 01:19:50,788
His colleague, Colonel Louis Gibeau, suffered a worse fate.

1141
01:19:51,354 --> 01:19:55,988
When presented with pictures of himself in bed with a
Russian spy in 1962...

1142
01:19:56,655 --> 01:19:58,454
He refused to collaborate.

1143
01:19:58,655 --> 01:20:00,855
Instead, he shot himself in the head.

1144
01:20:03,121 --> 01:20:08,221
She seems so kind and caring.

1145
01:20:08,287 --> 01:20:14,488
But she'll bring you unfathomable evil.

1146
01:20:14,888 --> 01:20:16,688
You don't have to forget...

1147
01:20:16,888 --> 01:20:19,154
There was a special department of KGB...

1148
01:20:22,855 --> 01:20:27,988
Which was in charge of sort of training women...

1149
01:20:28,955 --> 01:20:31,755
In order to get the foreigners in bed.

1150
01:20:32,554 --> 01:20:39,221
We called these girls "Legion," or "Legionaries."

1151
01:20:39,221 --> 01:20:43,388
Our orders came from the top.

1152
01:20:44,888 --> 01:20:51,688
Why "Legion"? Because we were on guard.

1153
01:20:52,254 --> 01:20:57,421
And, naturally, all this was based on sex.

1154
01:20:57,821 --> 01:21:01,354
A sex spy needs everything.

1155
01:21:01,855 --> 01:21:07,354
She should be smart, crafty and cultured.

1156
01:21:07,655 --> 01:21:15,287
They had to wear makeup,
smell nice, be well-dressed.

1157
01:21:15,554 --> 01:21:21,688
In short, they had to
stand out from Soviet girls.

1158
01:21:22,354 --> 01:21:24,821
They had to fire-up the target.

1159
01:21:25,588 --> 01:21:30,121
We didn't recruit Legionaires from the streets.

1160
01:21:30,354 --> 01:21:34,554
They selected them from 12-14 years old.

1161
01:21:34,788 --> 01:21:38,988
From various organizations like sport clubs.

1162
01:21:40,154 --> 01:21:45,454
I was doing ballet when I first met a strange old guy.

1163
01:21:46,821 --> 01:21:49,621
They looked us over and photographed us.

1164
01:21:50,154 --> 01:21:53,221
That was the start of the recruitment process.

1165
01:21:53,655 --> 01:22:01,788
This was the first photo they took of me.

1166
01:22:02,021 --> 01:22:03,554
I was thirteen.

1167
01:22:05,888 --> 01:22:09,221
First they fully investigate your family.

1168
01:22:09,454 --> 01:22:12,588
Then they vet the actual girl.

1169
01:22:12,788 --> 01:22:15,688
They analyzed years of my behavior in school.

1170
01:22:16,021 --> 01:22:19,354
All the skeletons in my closet, everything.

1171
01:22:19,621 --> 01:22:21,554
I knew everything about them.

1172
01:22:21,788 --> 01:22:24,488
For instance: "Why are you
wearing these stockings today?"

1173
01:22:24,855 --> 01:22:28,421
"And not yesterday's?
Because they got ripped?"

1174
01:22:28,655 --> 01:22:29,988
I had to know this.

1175
01:22:30,154 --> 01:22:33,955
If they groomed her for Legion,
they taught her everything.

1176
01:22:34,488 --> 01:22:41,621
How to do makeup, how to dress fashionably.

1177
01:22:42,287 --> 01:22:47,588
How to set a table. Western etiquette.

1178
01:22:47,821 --> 01:22:51,788
Only then, did they teach sex.

1179
01:22:52,254 --> 01:22:58,187
At home we were girls in ponytails...

1180
01:22:59,755 --> 01:23:03,121
In public we were femme fatales.

1181
01:23:03,655 --> 01:23:06,821
Before you formally join the service...

1182
01:23:07,054 --> 01:23:10,421
Because this is official work...

1183
01:23:11,054 --> 01:23:14,021
You had to pass an exam.

1184
01:23:14,221 --> 01:23:16,655
That you're not a simple prostitute.

1185
01:23:16,888 --> 01:23:18,988
That you can add value.

1186
01:23:19,755 --> 01:23:24,187
A bunch of serious old guys led the exams.

1187
01:23:24,688 --> 01:23:29,855
We had to catwalk naked in a sauna.

1188
01:23:30,588 --> 01:23:36,588
Your physical flexibility, capabilities and strength.

1189
01:23:36,655 --> 01:23:42,354
Then blow jobs, massages and everything else.

1190
01:23:42,688 --> 01:23:47,187
She finishes with one man; another arrives.

1191
01:23:47,788 --> 01:23:50,588
She needs endurance.

1192
01:23:50,821 --> 01:23:56,388
If she can pleasure 2-3 men in an hour...

1193
01:23:56,621 --> 01:23:59,821
They had to be satisfied and in ecstasy.

1194
01:24:00,655 --> 01:24:03,655
Then she's ready to start work.

1195
01:24:04,054 --> 01:24:05,755
This is me at 14.

1196
01:24:06,755 --> 01:24:09,755
At this age we officially joined.

1197
01:24:13,054 --> 01:24:16,121
He said, "See you've caught that man's eye?"

1198
01:24:16,955 --> 01:24:22,287
"Can seduce him to leave with you?"

1199
01:24:24,888 --> 01:24:28,588
"Where?" I asked. "At a rest house nearby."

1200
01:24:33,154 --> 01:24:36,821
I grabbed a bottle of champagne and I did it.

1201
01:24:37,421 --> 01:24:38,655
He filmed us.

1202
01:24:39,488 --> 01:24:43,988
We had a room with hidden cameras.

1203
01:24:44,821 --> 01:24:47,054
After a week...

1204
01:24:49,755 --> 01:24:52,287
He came to me and said, "Well..."

1205
01:24:52,821 --> 01:24:56,187
"Quite marvelous." And he showed me photos...

1206
01:24:56,855 --> 01:25:02,821
Of the victim crying as he lost his Party membership.

1207
01:25:03,755 --> 01:25:08,187
"That was your doing, and here is your payment."

1208
01:25:08,855 --> 01:25:14,154
I received 900 rubles...

1209
01:25:17,354 --> 01:25:22,021
When an engineer got 120 per month.

1210
01:25:22,421 --> 01:25:27,054
I went wherever they sent me.

1211
01:25:27,287 --> 01:25:30,621
For instance, a board room
with a lone Party member.

1212
01:25:32,354 --> 01:25:37,054
"Uncle dear, could you please sign this?"

1213
01:25:37,821 --> 01:25:39,254
"And who are you?"

1214
01:25:39,488 --> 01:25:41,988
"I'm simply Lenochka."

1215
01:25:43,254 --> 01:25:46,554
"Well, 'simply Lenochka' I'm not signing any paper."

1216
01:25:47,054 --> 01:25:49,454
I said "Uncle, have a look here..."

1217
01:25:50,287 --> 01:25:54,554
"I'll tear my shirt and there are two guards outside."

1218
01:25:55,154 --> 01:26:00,187
"I'll scream 'He's raping me and I'm only 17!'"

1219
01:26:00,588 --> 01:26:03,021
"Think about it, uncle.”

1220
01:26:05,054 --> 01:26:07,054
He signed everything.

1221
01:26:07,254 --> 01:26:09,755
And I was back at HQ in 90 minutes.

1222
01:26:11,154 --> 01:26:14,855
And some of the women were very,
very successful.

1223
01:26:16,187 --> 01:26:20,955
Like the wife of a very
famous sculptor, Konenkov.

1224
01:26:21,621 --> 01:26:24,287
She was the mistress of Einstein.

1225
01:26:24,488 --> 01:26:27,388
And of course she worked for KGB because...

1226
01:26:27,888 --> 01:26:30,454
Konenkova was allowed to work in New York.

1227
01:26:32,021 --> 01:26:34,221
And the Manhattan Project was...

1228
01:26:35,121 --> 01:26:35,755
Penetrated.

1229
01:26:37,154 --> 01:26:39,988
Personally, I think I deserve the honor.

1230
01:26:40,821 --> 01:26:44,955
If all my girls complete their missions.

1231
01:26:45,354 --> 01:26:46,655
Working efficiently...

1232
01:26:46,888 --> 01:26:50,021
And don't discredit me or themselves.

1233
01:26:51,187 --> 01:26:53,888
Because in reality it's me doing this.

1234
01:26:54,254 --> 01:26:58,755
I guided her through these jobs.

1235
01:26:58,821 --> 01:27:04,354
They promised the girls mountains of gold.

1236
01:27:04,354 --> 01:27:11,655
But they couldn't care less about us girls.

1237
01:27:11,888 --> 01:27:16,054
We were just disposable objects they could use.

1238
01:27:16,688 --> 01:27:23,287
We had a file of compromising material on every girl.

1239
01:27:24,021 --> 01:27:27,354
She knows I have a file this thick...

1240
01:27:27,888 --> 01:27:29,855
And any second...

1241
01:27:30,121 --> 01:27:33,388
I can pass some pages to the KGB...

1242
01:27:33,621 --> 01:27:35,755
And she'll be on trial for these crimes.

1243
01:27:37,121 --> 01:27:42,154
It's not possible to leave Legion.

1244
01:27:42,788 --> 01:27:44,254
Except in a body bag.

1245
01:27:45,688 --> 01:27:51,788
If we're successfully controlling their lives...

1246
01:27:52,421 --> 01:27:56,755
We know she'll never get away from us.

1247
01:27:57,287 --> 01:28:00,788
Every day I must know exactly what's in her head...

1248
01:28:01,588 --> 01:28:03,221
Or I'm not worth a penny.

1249
01:28:03,888 --> 01:28:07,454
Because she will outsmart you.

1250
01:28:09,354 --> 01:28:12,121
None of the girls are left.

1251
01:28:17,888 --> 01:28:18,621
Nadya.

1252
01:28:20,855 --> 01:28:23,655
She was promising, she went off to Kyiv.

1253
01:28:25,121 --> 01:28:27,855
She got drunk and blabbed some secret.

1254
01:28:28,988 --> 01:28:31,054
Then she was hit by a car.

1255
01:28:32,855 --> 01:28:34,955
This was my friend Tanya.

1256
01:28:35,021 --> 01:28:36,688
The brunette, Tanyachka.

1257
01:28:38,421 --> 01:28:42,187
Should ruined an important mission somehow.

1258
01:28:42,621 --> 01:28:46,554
Despite my hopes, I knew should wouldn't live.

1259
01:28:47,254 --> 01:28:48,688
She was drowned.

1260
01:28:52,655 --> 01:28:54,855
This girl is Victoria.

1261
01:28:55,287 --> 01:28:59,021
She fell in love with an Italian
she was supposed to recruit.

1262
01:28:59,621 --> 01:29:03,287
She had just about succeeded.

1263
01:29:03,688 --> 01:29:06,621
But at their last meeting she told him the truth.

1264
01:29:08,254 --> 01:29:10,955
They sent her to a psychiatric hospital.

1265
01:29:11,788 --> 01:29:13,821
And turned her into a vegetable.

1266
01:29:15,588 --> 01:29:17,154
You know...

1267
01:29:19,755 --> 01:29:22,354
With the perspective of all these years...

1268
01:29:24,454 --> 01:29:26,454
It seems to me now...

1269
01:29:28,187 --> 01:29:31,955
In my heart and soul I shouldn't have done that.

1270
01:29:33,121 --> 01:29:36,488
But by law I was required to do it.

1271
01:29:42,054 --> 01:29:45,988
Bosses were out of control in the Soviet Union.

1272
01:29:46,588 --> 01:29:49,388
They didn't listen neither to police nor to prosecutors.

1273
01:29:49,488 --> 01:29:51,488
He was god and tsar.

1274
01:29:51,655 --> 01:29:53,621
He did whatever he wanted.

1275
01:29:53,955 --> 01:29:57,988
Everything happened with the help of boss.

1276
01:29:58,554 --> 01:30:02,688
Wife's job: Him.

1277
01:30:02,955 --> 01:30:05,287
Husband's promotion: Him.

1278
01:30:05,421 --> 01:30:06,988
Apartment: Him.

1279
01:30:07,287 --> 01:30:08,621
Everything is Him.

1280
01:30:08,821 --> 01:30:09,788
If you are higher up...

1281
01:30:11,187 --> 01:30:13,054
In this echelon of power...

1282
01:30:13,354 --> 01:30:16,688
You're allowed to do more
things and get away with that.

1283
01:30:17,855 --> 01:30:20,021
So sex was one of the privileges.

1284
01:30:20,821 --> 01:30:22,554
Women who were ambitious...

1285
01:30:23,121 --> 01:30:25,388
To make a career to the top.

1286
01:30:27,388 --> 01:30:33,421
They had to accept sexual assault
as part of their social lifting.

1287
01:30:34,855 --> 01:30:37,855
You've got this elite hospital...

1288
01:30:38,121 --> 01:30:40,621
Where the nurses were obliged to go to bed...

1289
01:30:41,121 --> 01:30:42,855
With the high placed patients.

1290
01:30:43,021 --> 01:30:46,187
And the high-placed patients would say:

1291
01:30:46,688 --> 01:30:49,621
"We want some full breasted nurses."

1292
01:30:50,054 --> 01:30:54,287
It was very, very complicated
to say no for a nurse.

1293
01:30:55,454 --> 01:31:01,421
One of my female trainees was married to a doctor.

1294
01:31:02,955 --> 01:31:09,021
Her husband wanted
a transfer to a regional hospital.

1295
01:31:09,755 --> 01:31:14,454
So he sent his wife to
sleep with the other hospital director.

1296
01:31:14,755 --> 01:31:16,955
Even getting an apartment...
Because you couldn't buy one.

1297
01:31:17,121 --> 01:31:19,254
Even if you had money.

1298
01:31:19,488 --> 01:31:21,421
Apartments were state property.

1299
01:31:21,855 --> 01:31:29,154
To get a flat you had to be employed and wait in line.

1300
01:31:29,388 --> 01:31:33,554
You could wait your whole life and not get one.

1301
01:31:33,888 --> 01:31:38,588
But sleep with your boss...

1302
01:31:38,955 --> 01:31:44,221
You'll get a flat right away in the best neighborhood.

1303
01:31:44,988 --> 01:31:49,287
Yakov Pavlovich Osadchy is 68 years old.

1304
01:31:50,021 --> 01:31:55,154
Half his life he's run a pipe production factory.

1305
01:31:58,855 --> 01:32:04,788
First we allocate apartments to good employees.

1306
01:32:05,221 --> 01:32:07,621
We pay special attention to women.

1307
01:32:07,855 --> 01:32:10,888
Because God gave them better figures.

1308
01:32:14,421 --> 01:32:15,488
Do you have a name?
Yes.

1309
01:32:15,588 --> 01:32:17,688
What is your name, dear?

1310
01:32:17,988 --> 01:32:18,821
Shura.

1311
01:32:18,955 --> 01:32:21,621
Shura-baby... How long have you suffered?

1312
01:32:21,788 --> 01:32:22,688
Many years Mr. Pavlovich.

1313
01:32:22,855 --> 01:32:24,254
How many without an apartment?

1314
01:32:24,488 --> 01:32:27,488
I've been first in line since 1964.

1315
01:32:27,755 --> 01:32:30,454
So, you've been waiting for 10 years, huh?

1316
01:32:31,221 --> 01:32:33,655
Have patience for half a year more.

1317
01:32:35,988 --> 01:32:37,955
So the Director told me:

1318
01:32:38,621 --> 01:32:41,388
"You've been at the front of the line five years."

1319
01:32:41,621 --> 01:32:43,121
I was first!

1320
01:32:43,354 --> 01:32:44,821
Can you imagine?

1321
01:32:45,221 --> 01:32:48,788
While we were talking a fly landed on me.

1322
01:32:49,688 --> 01:32:55,454
He said: "You push me away
but even the flies know you're sweet."

1323
01:32:56,421 --> 01:32:58,688
These kinds of hints.

1324
01:32:59,488 --> 01:33:02,554
"You'll get an apartment when I get sex."

1325
01:33:03,788 --> 01:33:10,688
When a girl suddenly starts to rise at work...

1326
01:33:11,154 --> 01:33:14,221
Immediately there is a suspicion...

1327
01:33:14,421 --> 01:33:19,021
That her success is because she's the boss's lover.

1328
01:33:20,054 --> 01:33:22,688
There was no other way.

1329
01:33:23,254 --> 01:33:27,421
Especially secretaries.

1330
01:33:29,287 --> 01:33:31,588
They were the number one prostitutes.

1331
01:33:32,221 --> 01:33:35,421
They were "Secre-tutes." From the words...

1332
01:33:37,187 --> 01:33:39,755
"Secretary" and "prostitute."

1333
01:33:39,755 --> 01:33:48,488
If you don't "serve" your boss, you won't work.

1334
01:33:49,054 --> 01:33:52,755
How else? Gotta undress, sit down...

1335
01:33:55,054 --> 01:34:03,688
Men are sassy. If he likes a woman,
he'll turn her life into hell.

1336
01:34:04,855 --> 01:34:07,054
As soon as he notices the wench...

1337
01:34:07,588 --> 01:34:09,221
She's a goner.

1338
01:34:10,655 --> 01:34:15,488
They raped them and no one paid a price.

1339
01:34:15,821 --> 01:34:18,621
Especially bosses.

1340
01:34:19,254 --> 01:34:23,121
The boss was Melnyk... Oleg Vasilievich.

1341
01:34:23,221 --> 01:34:28,388
"If you sleep with me you'll get your
full salary and no demerits."

1342
01:34:28,621 --> 01:34:30,755
"If you don't, you get nothing."

1343
01:34:31,221 --> 01:34:36,287
He gave me potatoes and flour.

1344
01:34:36,855 --> 01:34:39,655
Poverty was so bad.

1345
01:34:40,021 --> 01:34:42,388
Girls screwed for food, for anything.

1346
01:34:43,187 --> 01:34:47,054
Where to complain? To whom?

1347
01:34:47,955 --> 01:34:51,054
They lived however they wanted.

1348
01:34:51,454 --> 01:34:53,388
They did everything they wanted.

1349
01:34:54,021 --> 01:35:00,221
Their lechery was at a
level you can't even imagine.

1350
01:35:00,554 --> 01:35:05,988
In the army there were these
art collectives, like ensembles.

1351
01:35:06,655 --> 01:35:13,655
The girls there had to go to bed
with the highly placed military.

1352
01:35:14,388 --> 01:35:19,755
They could organize orgies and invite these young dancers.

1353
01:35:20,254 --> 01:35:24,388
The regional heads invited young girls.

1354
01:35:24,755 --> 01:35:26,488
And arranged various games.

1355
01:35:26,788 --> 01:35:31,454
The most popular was "The Daisy."

1356
01:35:32,054 --> 01:35:42,688
The girls were lined in a circle
and the man had each one.

1357
01:35:43,121 --> 01:35:44,888
The contest is how many girls he could do.

1358
01:35:45,021 --> 01:35:49,688
What the hell are you raping young girls for?

1359
01:35:50,121 --> 01:35:53,621
Bastards, aren't there enough
women so you're raping children?

1360
01:35:54,988 --> 01:35:57,788
Such filthy pleasures.

1361
01:35:58,655 --> 01:36:01,888
They satisfied them at the expense of people's lives.

1362
01:36:02,354 --> 01:36:05,588
At the expense of souls and blood.

1363
01:36:05,855 --> 01:36:10,254
Soviets came: bosses, directors, snakes.

1364
01:36:10,621 --> 01:36:13,788
Did what they wanted with women.

1365
01:36:14,454 --> 01:36:15,788
This is not true.

1366
01:36:16,187 --> 01:36:19,688
She asked for it. She gave him a reason.

1367
01:36:20,254 --> 01:36:23,621
"If the bitch doesn't want to fuck..."

1368
01:36:23,755 --> 01:36:26,655
"Then the dog is out of luck."

1369
01:36:27,054 --> 01:36:30,421
He can't do anything if the girl doesn't agree.

1370
01:36:30,621 --> 01:36:34,254
How can you make me have sex?

1371
01:36:34,488 --> 01:36:38,821
My mom came home, crying and bleeding.

1372
01:36:39,021 --> 01:36:41,888
They dragged her into a barn.

1373
01:36:42,221 --> 01:36:45,855
Two men stood on her arms and the third one...

1374
01:36:46,121 --> 01:36:49,788
They all raped her by turn.

1375
01:36:53,788 --> 01:36:57,688
The elite ignored the Soviet ideals
of austerity, modesty,

1376
01:36:58,354 --> 01:36:59,121
and sobriety.

1377
01:36:59,788 --> 01:37:01,221
And they were far from chaste.

1378
01:37:01,888 --> 01:37:04,821
Stalin himself collected nude male drawings.

1379
01:37:05,388 --> 01:37:08,788
And scribbled obscene notes
in the margins during his free time.

1380
01:37:09,421 --> 01:37:14,221
At 35 He began an affair with a thirteen-year-old orphan.

1381
01:37:14,888 --> 01:37:17,588
His next lover was a sixteen-year-old runaway.

1382
01:37:18,021 --> 01:37:21,187
The secret police codenamed "Glamourpuss."

1383
01:37:22,121 --> 01:37:25,421
The Soviet Minister of Culture
used his position to commandeer...

1384
01:37:25,454 --> 01:37:28,655
A harem of young actresses,
ballerinas and schoolgirls.

1385
01:37:28,821 --> 01:37:31,388
Whom he and many of his colleagues routinely raped.

1386
01:37:31,988 --> 01:37:35,221
It was only when one jumped from her dormitory window...

1387
01:37:35,454 --> 01:37:39,554
And her mother read the suicide
note that the ring was exposed.

1388
01:37:41,154 --> 01:37:45,421
Another leader, Sergei Kirov,
was infamous for his nightly requests...

1389
01:37:45,855 --> 01:37:48,554
That the most beautiful ballerinas
be sent to his apartment.

1390
01:37:49,254 --> 01:37:54,388
He was following in the footsteps
of the KGB chief Lavrentiy Beria...

1391
01:37:54,655 --> 01:37:57,855
Who sent his driver on daily hunts for schoolgirls...

1392
01:37:57,988 --> 01:38:00,821
To kidnap and bring back to his cottage.

1393
01:38:02,154 --> 01:38:04,421
He raped and murdered countless girls.

1394
01:38:08,488 --> 01:38:10,988
Without a free press or courts...

1395
01:38:11,154 --> 01:38:13,187
And the threat of punishment against women...

1396
01:38:13,588 --> 01:38:16,788
Should they resist, the Soviet Union was in essence...

1397
01:38:16,955 --> 01:38:20,021
A continent-sized sexual
hunting ground for the powerful.

1398
01:38:20,488 --> 01:38:24,021
Whether a local party boss or
the General Secretary himself.

1399
01:38:34,421 --> 01:38:41,287
How could a warm-blooded
people like the Russians...

1400
01:38:41,554 --> 01:38:46,488
Could just sweep sex under the rug?
Surely there will be an explosion.

1401
01:38:47,287 --> 01:38:50,254
This is actually a political question...

1402
01:38:51,221 --> 01:38:57,655
That appears in other areas of human life.

1403
01:38:57,888 --> 01:39:01,888
Do the illustrious Russian people...

1404
01:39:02,187 --> 01:39:05,187
Conduct themselves as normal people?

1405
01:39:05,421 --> 01:39:11,755
In regard to human rights,
real elections, real voting and not fictions?

1406
01:39:12,821 --> 01:39:20,488
But after so much repression,
there might be some explosion?

1407
01:39:21,054 --> 01:39:26,454
The sexual revolution in Russia...

1408
01:39:26,688 --> 01:39:31,621
Will not proceed in a civilized manner.

1409
01:39:31,788 --> 01:39:38,221
This sexual revolution could
result in a social cataclysm.

1410
01:39:38,354 --> 01:39:44,021
Perestroika lit a fire in society.

1411
01:39:44,488 --> 01:39:46,655
And then the film "Little Vera" appeared.

1412
01:39:46,755 --> 01:39:55,988
It was the first time a woman was
shown to be in charge during sex.

1413
01:39:56,554 --> 01:39:59,821
In many ways that film marked...

1414
01:40:00,154 --> 01:40:02,888
The end of the Soviet system.

1415
01:40:22,454 --> 01:40:25,488
The 1980s saw economic and political chaos...

1416
01:40:25,755 --> 01:40:30,154
And the AIDS epidemic brutalized Russia
as the Soviet Union collapsed.

1417
01:40:31,454 --> 01:40:34,354
The 1990s brought further social disintegration.

1418
01:40:35,021 --> 01:40:39,988
Sex was everywhere. TV broadcasters
stripped naked while reporting the news.

1419
01:40:40,488 --> 01:40:43,021
Street corners filled with pornography and prostitutes.

1420
01:40:44,154 --> 01:40:46,688
Sexpionage did not die with the Soviet Union.

1421
01:40:47,588 --> 01:40:50,254
When Vladimir Putin took over the secret police...

1422
01:40:50,655 --> 01:40:52,888
He orchestrated the national broadcast...

1423
01:40:53,154 --> 01:40:58,287
Of a sex sting operation against
a political enemy of Boris Yeltsin.

1424
01:40:58,988 --> 01:41:01,554
He was rewarded with the job of Prime Minister.

1425
01:41:01,788 --> 01:41:04,287
Setting the stage for his rise to absolute power.

1426
01:41:04,855 --> 01:41:09,888
Totalitarianism did not vanish in 1991.

1427
01:41:10,154 --> 01:41:13,354
All these fears remained.

1428
01:41:13,621 --> 01:41:18,488
It's horrific that in the 21st century...

1429
01:41:19,154 --> 01:41:22,955
This plague is still infecting people.

1430
01:41:23,354 --> 01:41:24,688
And draws them to their death.

1431
01:41:25,121 --> 01:41:26,454
A person dies there.

1432
01:41:26,788 --> 01:41:29,454
It's not a country but a pile of shit.

1433
01:41:30,221 --> 01:41:31,855
And it's stinky.

1434
01:41:32,554 --> 01:41:35,988
The whole world should unite...

1435
01:41:36,388 --> 01:41:40,054
Around the idea to destroy this evil.

1436
01:41:53,421 --> 01:41:56,621
An 86 year-old man assaulted in his home...

1437
01:41:56,788 --> 01:41:59,187
Who died last night...

1438
01:41:59,454 --> 01:42:03,221
Was Russian dissident Mikhael Stern.

1439
01:42:03,388 --> 01:42:06,254
He was a world famous dissident.

1440
01:42:06,588 --> 01:42:10,254
Along with Sakharov, Solzhenitsyn and Sharansky.

1441
01:42:11,254 --> 01:42:14,121
After a campaign was organized to free him...

1442
01:42:14,121 --> 01:42:19,221
By Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir...

1443
01:42:19,454 --> 01:42:22,054
He was released from gulag
and settled in Amsterdam...

1444
01:42:22,287 --> 01:42:26,021
Where, almost thirty years later,
he met this tragic end.